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LD1641 • 2025

An Act to Allow Municipalities to Implement a Local Option Sales Tax

An Act to Allow Municipalities to Implement a Local Option Sales Tax

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Sponsor
Senator Timothy Nangle
Last action
2025-05-13
Official status
Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
Effective date
Not listed

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An Act to Allow Municipalities to Implement a Local Option Sales Tax

An Act to Allow Municipalities to Implement a Local Option Sales Tax Sponsor: Senator Timothy Nangle Reference committee: Taxation Latest committee action: Reported Out; LTW

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to Allow Municipalities to Implement a Local Option Sales Tax Sponsor: Senator Timothy Nangle Reference committee: Taxation Latest committee action: Reported Out; LTW

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Bill History

  1. 2025-05-13 Senate

    Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)

  2. 2025-05-07 Committee

    LTW Approved by Chairs; LTW

  3. 2025-05-07 Committee

    Reported Out; LTW

  4. 2025-04-11 Committee

    Referred to Committee on Taxation.

  5. House

    None

Official Summary Text

An Act to Allow Municipalities to Implement a Local Option Sales Tax
Sponsor:
Senator Timothy Nangle
Reference committee:
Taxation
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; LTW

Current Bill Text

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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST SPECIAL SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 1641
S.P. 649 In Senate, April 15, 2025
An Act to Allow Municipalities to Implement a Local Option Sales
Tax
Received by the Secretary of the Senate on April 11, 2025. Referred to the Committee on
Taxation pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed.
DAREK M. GRANT
Secretary of the Senate
Presented by Senator NANGLE of Cumberland.

Page 1 - 132LR1967(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 36 MRSA §1811, sub-§3 is enacted to read:
33. Local option sales tax. A municipality may impose a local option sales tax of up
4 to 0.5% on the sale of any good or service authorized to be taxed under this chapter by
5 municipal referendum held on the first Tuesday in November. The referendum question
6 must include language describing what the revenue from the tax is to be used for. A local
7 option sales tax under this subsection may be imposed only on a year-round basis.
8SUMMARY
9 This bill allows a municipality to impose a year-round local option sales tax on the sale
10 of any goods or services allowed to be taxed at the statewide level by municipal
11 referendum.
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