The House Revenue Committee was again disinterested in new taxes last week as it voted down a real estate transfer tax, and an expansion of the sales tax from goods to services.
Teton County legislators supported the real estate tax. Jackson Hole Mountain Resort lobbied against the sales tax expansion.
Rep. Cathy Connolly, D-Albany, was the lead sponsor on the sales tax bill. Pointing to a report on Wyomingâs estimated âtax capacityâ â the ability to increase taxes while remaining competitive business-wise â she argued that Wyoming has plenty of âcapacity.â
âWe have a reputation for being business friendly â no two ways about it. Our taxes are part of that,â Connolly said. âBut what these studies indicate over and over and over again is that we can increase our taxes and still remain competitive. We have that capacity.â
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Percent change:-3.17% (vs. £117m in 2019)
Scotch exports to Australia have been growing steadily for several years now, but 2020 marks the first year that the market has made it into the top 10 most valuable markets, signalling its growing importance going forward.
Scotch exports to Australia totalled £113m in 2020, which although a 3.17% drop on 2019’s total, was still enough to edge into the top 10 with Mexico and India both dropping out to make way.
That success is likely to continue should the UK’s negotiations for a free trade deal with Australia prove successful. Talks for a deal began in June 2020, with the next phase of discussions set to take place in February 2021. Assuming an agreement is reached, trade relations with Australia and the outlook for Scotch can only get brighter.