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Table 1
SUMMARY AND VALUE OF BREAKS
AND POLICY FAVORS FOR SPECIAL INTERESTS
| DESCRIPTION |
COST PER TAXPAYER |
| Corporate tax breaks and loopholes |
$218 |
| Failure of combined-reporting tax |
$25 |
| Prison operations |
$37 |
| Road construction |
$39 |
| Caucus investigation and redistricting legal fees |
$1 |
| Farmland use value tax |
$65 |
| Sales tax exemptions |
$545 |
| Property tax exemptions |
$186 |
| State pension increase |
$62 |
| Ethanol subsidies |
$1 |
| Telephone tax |
$16 |
| State employee benefits |
$4 |
| TOTAL |
$1,199 |
Table 2
PARTIAL LIST OF STATE SALES AND
USE TAX EXEMPTIONS AND
THE ESTIMATED LOSS IN
TAX COLLECTIONS BY THE STATE IN 2000
| ITEM |
ANNUAL VALUE |
| Accounting services |
$46,000,000 |
| Admissions to educational events and places |
$4,700,000 |
| Advertising |
$81,000,000 |
| Architectural engineering and surveying services |
$53,000,000 |
| Auto and travel clubs |
$1,600,000 |
| Beauty and barber services |
$16,700,000 |
| Business addressing and mailing services |
$8,100,000 |
| Business and fraternal association membership dues |
$11,700,000 |
| Business rental payments |
$323,000,000 |
| Commercial vessels and barges |
$1,800,000 |
| Commissions to real estate brokers |
$35,000,000 |
| Computer services |
$120,000,000 |
| Construction materials and equipment used to build sports stadiums |
$1,500,000 |
| Credit rating and collection services |
$5,900,000 |
| Dance studios |
$100,000 |
| Dry cleaning services and Laundromats |
$2,350,000 |
| Exterminators |
$2,200,000 |
| Farm machinery and milk house supplies |
$35,100,000 |
| Health and reducing clubs |
$6,600,000 |
| Interior designers |
$2,700,000 |
| Janitorial services |
$18,800,000 |
| Legal services |
$78,000,000 |
| Live bands and orchestras |
$220,000 |
| Logging equipment |
$500,000 |
| Management consulting and public relations services |
$49,000,000 |
| Manufacturing machinery and equipment |
$240,000,000 |
| Motion picture and television film |
$2,800,000 |
| Newspapers, periodicals and shopper guides |
$15,600,000 |
| Personnel services |
$61,000,000 |
| Semen for livestock breeding |
$2,000,000 |
| Value of labor in construction projects |
$342,000,000 |
| Vehicles sold to common and contract carriers |
$24,000,000 |
| Veterinary services for pets and farm animals |
$13,900,000 |
| Waste treatment facilities |
$30,000,000 |
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