Massage Therapy to be TAXED!
NJ STATE TO PASS BILL IMPOSING SALES TAX ON MASSAGE THERAPY
The NJ State Budget and Appropriations committee has revised bill S2628–Modernization of sales and use tax (sponsored by Senator Bernard F. Kenny, Jr) to impose 6% sales tax on massage therapy, bodywork and somatic services. The only exemption to this would be if a client has a doctor’s prescription.
Your opinion counts! Write to the state senate and members of the assembly prior to July 1st (which is the budget deadline). Find and contact your legislator.
On the left side of the home page, under Members, click “Find Your Legislator”. From there , you can search by municipality, alphabetically, or by district. Send an email right from the site!
EASY: Find your municipality and email you reps.
SEND AN EMAIL AT THE SITE: I just emailed them! My message was “I do not support bill S2628: Modernization of sales and use tax–regarding massage therapy, bodywork and somatic services” OR you can say “I am in opposition to bill S2628 Modernization of sales and use tax–regarding massage therapy, bodywork and somatic services”
READ BILL S2628: This link will bring you the page of the sponsoring senator where you can view all the bills he is sponsoring.
Click on bills sponsored by this senator toward bottom of bio; go to page 3. You will see bill S2628: Modernizes sales & use tax. To read the bill you need to click on S2628 this will give you options to view the bill in different formats. I searched for the word “massage” to see the proposed line with my own eyes.