Tax breaks for SUVs

October 12th, 2003

60 Minutes just informed me that there is a twenty-five thousand dollar tax credit for the purchase of any truck that weighs over six thousand pounds and is used for business at least half the time. Originally designed so small businesses could afford delivery trucks and the like, it’s now being used by real estate agents to save a big chunk of change on a new car. They would get the Lexus or the Beemer sedan, but instead they get the LandCruiser or the Hummer and they save, what, twenty-eight to thirty-six percent of twenty-five grand? That’s a little under 10k back in their pocket.

Nice move, Guvmint.

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6 Comments on “Tax breaks for SUVs”

  1. Oct 12, 2003 - 10:51 pm
    Ryan Waddell

    Yeah… I heard about that one quite a while ago… sigh…

     
  2. Oct 13, 2003 - 11:17 am
    ErikZ

    I was wondering how they were able to afford all those big new expensive trucks for their business.

     
  3. Oct 14, 2003 - 1:58 pm
    Sweety

    it’s funny how new laws & rules work out sometimes :)

     
  4. Oct 18, 2003 - 3:13 pm
    isaac

    Funny? Funny! FUNNY!

    Unless you mean Funny Uh-Oh instead of Funny Ha-Ha — which I can only assume is not the case, given the presence of your smiley emoticon — then, no, no sireebob: it’s not funny.

    It fucking makes me sick to my ass. Motherfuckers are a fucking disgrace to the nation.

     
  5. Oct 18, 2003 - 3:24 pm
    Matt Moore

    Sweety lives in Denmark or somesuch, cut her some slack.

     
  6. Dec 22, 2003 - 7:50 am
    Heather's Blogpile

    Tax Credit for Incinerator and Extravaganza?

    Just a questions to follow up on – as time allows … I hear that SUVs (SportBrutes) above a certain size (GVWR) get a tax credit … yes, a tax credit …! I want to know what happened to…

     

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