Michigan Votes Forum

Introduced in the House on August 8, 2007, to retroactively change some definitions in the Use Tax Act (related to who is a "taxpayer" for purposes of claiming a bad debt deduction) that will have the effect of reversing the judgement of the Supreme Court in the case "DaimlerChrysler Services North America, LLC v. Department of Treasury," under which the state will be required to honor $93 million in tax refund claims. The bill would also result in an additional $30 million in annual use tax paid by business in the future

The vote was 56 in favor, 52 opposed and 2 not voting

(House Roll Call 391 at House Journal 95)

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Plan on lots of unintended consequences from the new, even more complicated business tax.

So you write a tax law that the Taxpayer follows to a T and when the Supreme Court says pay up, you want to change the rules retro-actively. Not bad, you just make up the rules as you go along and screw a company who just spent a fortune fighting you all the way to the Supreme Court over a law that YOU wrote. Yea! I want to do business in Michigan, sure I do.