Tanning Tax ? - Get Tanned And Taxed
March 25, 2010 by admin
Filed under Tax Articles
When July rolls around, those tanning sessions that you have been going to may be a little more expensive.
Tanners can spend several hundreds of dollars on tanning sessions that last a few minutes.
According to ABC News: “The average indoor tanning patron spends $75 per year on sessions at one of more than 18,000 salons across the country, according to industry statistics. Each small business brings in an average annual gross revenue of $150,000.” An industry expert is quoted as saying that ” an estimated 28 million Americans to lie under indoor ultraviolet rays each year, he said the so-called “tanning tax” caught him by surprise.
The tanning tax could see tanning salons across the country being affected because of the higher costs that these salons would have to pass on to consumers - who in turn might choose not to do it.
The tanning tax comes as part of the nascent Health reform bil, but this tax coming .
Read more about this story at ABC news. .com
