EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Sarah Brown

PRESIDENT
Patrick Sparks
Patrick’s Restaurant and Bowl
Sullivan

VICE PRESIDENT
Scott Devers
Mike Aulby’s
Arrowhead Bowl
Lafayette

SECRETARY/TREASURER
Laurie Tucker
Hobart Lanes
Hobart

 Affiliated with BPAA

Alert - Local Option Food and Beverage Tax Gets Second Reading (Posted 01/18/04)
 
HB 1008, a bill that would allow any city, town, or county to impose a local food and beverage tax.

The bill would allow a city or town to impose a new tax in addition to any existing food and beverage taxes at the county level, thus creating two separate taxes, one for the county and one for the municipality. It would also allow the money to be used for literally any purpose – it would not have to be dedicated to a purpose, such as tourism or convention promotion, that would bring new customers to the restaurants collecting the tax.

1. Contact the following key members of the House Ways and Means Committee. Ask them to vote NO on HB 1008. Let them know how detrimental the passing of this bill would be to restaurants and the customers they serve:
   
   William Crawford, Chairman, H98@in.gov, 317-232-9816
   Terri Austin, H36@in.gov, 317-232-9751
   William C. Cochran, H72@in.gov, 317-232-9806
   Jeff Espich, H82@in.gov, 317-232-9651
   Sheila Klinker, H27@in.gov, 317-232-9644
   Carolene Mays, H94@in.gov, 317-232-9728
   David Orentlicher, H86@in.gov, 317-232-9818
   Eric Turner, H32@in.gov, 317-232-9750
    

2. Contact your own representative and ask them to vote NO on HB 1008.

Need more information about the issue? Go to website www.stoptaxingfood.org. This website is full of issue related information, talking points, statistics, and tools you can use to get involved in the fight.