{"id":4689,"date":"2014-08-22T08:07:20","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T02:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2014\/08\/22\/maryland-furniture-retailers-protest-sales-tax-hike\/"},"modified":"2014-08-22T08:07:20","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T02:37:20","slug":"maryland-furniture-retailers-protest-sales-tax-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/maryland-furniture-retailers-protest-sales-tax-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland furniture retailers protest sales tax hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furniture Today,<br \/>\nStores say proposed 20% increase will drive consumers to out-of-state competitors<\/p>\n<p>BALTIMORE \u00e2\u20ac\u201d More than 25 Maryland furniture retailers have launched a public campaign against a proposed state sales tax increase, according to a story on the Baltimore Examiner Web site.<br \/>\n                        <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><br \/>\nThe state, facing a budget deficit, is considering raising the sales tax from 5% to 6%, a 20% increase. The retail group ran a full-page ad opposing the move in Monday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Examiner.<\/p>\n<p> Retailers argue that Maryland businesses will lose customers to out-of-state stores that have lower or no sales taxes. The Examiner quoted Pasadena Furniture owner Ray Kenney as saying, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We compete vigorously against out-of-state firms. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re pleading for our survival.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furniture Today, Stores say proposed 20% increase will drive consumers to out-of-state competitors BALTIMORE \u00e2\u20ac\u201d More than 25 Maryland furniture retailers have launched a public campaign against a proposed state sales tax increase, according to a story on the Baltimore Examiner Web site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furniture-indonesia-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}