{"id":5053,"date":"2010-12-07T04:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T08:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/index.php\/10-percent-tax-hurting-poll-says\/"},"modified":"2010-12-07T04:00:34","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T08:00:34","slug":"10-percent-tax-hurting-poll-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/10-percent-tax-hurting-poll-says\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Percent Tax Hurting, Poll Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six out of 10 indoor tanning businesses say the U.S. Federal 10 percent tax on tanning services has hurt business more than they expected, according to the results of a SmartTan.com poll conducted in the past two weeks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/2010-12-07-Tax-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5054\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" title=\"2010-12-07 Tax copy\" src=\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/2010-12-07-Tax-copy.jpg\" alt=\"2010-12-07 Tax copy\" width=\"285\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>According to the poll, 60 percent say the tax hurt them more than they expected in the five months since it took effect July 1. On the flip-side, about one-quarter of salons (24 percent) said the tax hurt them less than they expected. Just less than one-in-six (15 percent) said the tax has not hurt their business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 10 percent federal tax on tanning is hurting small businesses \u2014 it still remains a bad tax put in place the wrong way for the wrong reasons,\u201d Smart Tan Vice President Joseph Levy said. \u201cIt will be interesting to see if it remains a part of whatever health care reform survives in the next few years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/2010-12-07-Poll.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5055\" title=\"2010-12-07-Poll\" src=\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/2010-12-07-Poll.jpg\" alt=\"2010-12-07-Poll\" width=\"383\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six out of 10 indoor tanning businesses say the U.S. Federal 10 percent tax on tanning services has hurt business more than they expected, according to the results of a SmartTan.com poll conducted in the past two weeks. According to the poll, 60 percent say the tax hurt them more than they expected in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>10 Percent Tax Hurting, Poll Says - Smart Tan News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Six out of 10 indoor tanning businesses say the U.S. Federal 10 percent tax on tanning services has hurt business more than they expected, according to the results of a SmartTan.com poll conducted in the past two weeks. According to the poll, 60 percent say the tax hurt them more than they expected in the five months since it took effect July 1. On the flip-side, about one-quarter of salons (24 percent) said the tax hurt them less than they expected. Just less than one-in-six (15 percent) said the tax has not hurt their business. \u201cThe 10 percent federal tax on tanning is hurting small businesses \u2014 it still remains a bad tax put in place the wrong way for the wrong reasons,\u201d Smart Tan Vice President Joseph Levy said. \u201cIt will be interesting to see if it remains a part of whatever health care reform survives in the next few years.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/10-percent-tax-hurting-poll-says\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"10 Percent Tax Hurting, Poll Says - Smart Tan News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Six out of 10 indoor tanning businesses say the U.S. Federal 10 percent tax on tanning services has hurt business more than they expected, according to the results of a SmartTan.com poll conducted in the past two weeks. 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