PTAs to Begin Collecting Sales Tax During Fundraisers
The state comptroller told PTA officials they had been violating tax law by not collecting sales tax.
Local chapters of the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) in Maryland will now have to start collecting sales tax during fundraisers after the state comptroller's office told officials that PTAs had been violating tax law. Whenever a local school’s PTA hosted a bake sale or magazine fundraiser in the past, the organization usually charged a flat fee since the hosts usually already paid retail tax on the items. However, that is now going to change due to the comptroller’s interpretation of Maryland tax law, said Maryland PTA president-elect Ray Leone. Do you believe PTAs should be required to collect sales tax? Tell us in comments. Following the comptroller’s announcement, the more than 900 PTAs in Maryland will need to start collecting sales …
Judy robinson
10:36 am on Friday, January 25, 2013
Go look at the roles of people who don't owe back taxes -- multimillionaires who really dont' care and they want to stack more gas taxes on top of the 23.5 state and 19.5 federal we already pay. I have a nice house I'll sell you so I can move! more ›