Idaho House balks on personal property tax bills

Associated Press

BOISE - The House's tax committee has put off voting on a pair of competing bills to repeal the state's personal property tax on business equipment and instead will consider a new measure.

That's according to the Twin Falls Times-News.

The newspaper said Wednesday that bills from the Association of Idaho Counties and the Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry will no longer get a vote in the House Revenue and Taxation Committee today, as originally planned.

That's after hearings on Tuesday and Wednesday on both measures.

Instead, the industry group said a third, unspecified repeal gambit will be introduced in the House panel on Friday.

With lawmakers approaching the 2013 session's end, there's no guarantee that anything will be done in the Idaho Legislature on the tax front this year.