Did the Vermont Public Service board just propose eliminating the sales tax on the sale of 4,310 appliances?
“Funds for fridges”
The State of Vermont has submitted for US Department of Energy approval a plan which would offer rebates on the purchase of new energy efficient appliances including washers refrigerators, air conditioners and also certain gas furnaces and water heaters .Documentation that the old appliance was properly recycled would need to be provided.
The Burlington Free Press reports ,
The proposal calls for rebates, ranging from $75 to $150, on efficient clothes washers, refrigerators and air conditioners. ……The state's plan allows for 4,310 such appliances to be sold through the rebate plan.
So far so good .Trade up to an energy efficient appliance with the aid of a government run program. However they hope to piggyback the program on Vermont state's one day sales tax holiday. Perhaps cleverly generating publicity but also losing any revenue the state might have garnered from the increased sales of new efficient appliances over the course of the program.
If approved by the Energy Department the rebates would be offered in a one-day event on Vermont's next "sales tax holiday," slated for March 10, piggybacking on the attention paid to the day free of sales taxes, the filing says. Efficiency Vermont would develop lists of the eligible products Jan. 1, the documents state
Also posted at Green Mountain Daily
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