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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Companies with Florida footprints are required to collect sales taxes on online purchases is nothing new, but there is no such mandate for “out-of-state” companies.
That likely is about to change because of fast-moving legislation that would require out-of-state e-tailers to collect sales tax from Floridians.
What You Need To Know
State legislature likely to approve tax on out-of-state online sales
The House Ways and Means Committee has signed off on the measure
The GOP wants funds raised from the tax to replenish unemployment tax trust fund
Democrats want the funds to go toward likely pandemic-induced budget shortfall
How EMS Workers Are Bringing Vaccines to Peoples Homes PUBLISHED 5:31 PM ET Mar. 10, 2021 PUBLISHED 5:31 PM EST Mar. 10, 2021
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Anne Geleta has been living in the same home in Saratoga County for the last 50 years. She isn t able to get out much and has spent a lot of time at home because of the pandemic. I try to be as independent as I could, she said. But thank God I m able to stay here.
That s made it difficult for Geleta and other homebound people like her to get a COVID vaccine. So the vaccine is coming to her.
On a warm Tuesday morning, Alan Bell of the Clifton Park-Halfmoon EMS was bringing her the first of two doses manufactured by Moderna.
But a spokesperson for the State Thruway Authority vigorously defended the bridge to
Capital Tonight, saying that extensive testing was done. Extensive studies. Extensive analysis. The traveling public needs to have confidence in this span.
That may be, but according to Sen. Griffo, better safe than sorry. He told
Capital Tonight that he wants an independent investigation and has a few ideas about who could spearhead it. There are a number of qualified engineering firms in the state of New York that could try to put this concern at rest, he said. And, or utilizing the universities that have expertise in engineering. And we have some prominent universities here in New York.