{"id":21881,"date":"2017-04-20T14:12:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T20:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=21881"},"modified":"2017-04-20T14:12:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T20:12:37","slug":"repeal-of-tax-exemption-for-political-events-advanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=21881","title":{"rendered":"Repeal of tax exemption for political events advanced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Food and admissions fees at political events no longer would be exempt from sales taxes under a bill advanced from general file April 20.<figure id=\"attachment_20159\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20159\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20159\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=20159\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenScheer_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"senscheer_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Jim Scheer&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Jim Scheer&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenScheer_inline.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenScheer_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Jim Scheer\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenScheer_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenScheer_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Jim Scheer<\/figcaption><\/figure> <\/p>\n<p>Introduced by Sen. Jim Scheer of Norfolk, LB63 would eliminate a sales and use tax exemption for admission, fees and food sold at political events held by ballot question committees, independent committees and political party committees.<\/p>\n<p>Scheer said the bill likely would have a small financial impact because hosts of political events often pay sales taxes on food anyway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I think if we as politicians and legislators are going to try to have others work on our budget problems, then we should be part of the solution as well,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Sen. Mike Groene of North Platte supported the bill. He said an often-heard complaint among Americans is that politicians exempt themselves from the laws they make.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is just a simple message to the people of Nebraska [that] we don\u2019t exempt ourselves from the taxes that they pay,\u201d Groene said. <\/p>\n<p>LB63 advanced to select file 32-0. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food and admissions fees at political events no longer would be exempt from sales taxes under a bill advanced from general file April 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-21881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-revenue","tag-sen-jim-scheer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/LB63Scheer4-20-17a.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21884,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21881\/revisions\/21884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}