Count Your Fingers and Get Ready for Legal Fireworks in CT

The Tax Foundation today released a new report on what states raised – or reduced – which taxes this year and for a change, Connecticut is mentioned only in passing for having its sales-tax-free week, which just ended in the run-up to back to school. Nestled in the report, though, is some potentially bad news for folks who don’t like the bang of fireworks during the Independence Day season, which seems to stretch from mid-June to late-July. Rhode Island, facing a nasty budget deficit, “legalized fireworks on June 14 ahead of July 4, a move that boosted sales tax revenue by approximately $500,000,” the report says. The Blogster hates illegal fireworks, but anticipates that Connecticut lawmakers next year would love to cling to an extra half million dollars in revenue. The full report is online at http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/26645.html.