More than six months after Governor Larry Hogan vetoed the Maryland’s proposed first-in-the-nation digital advertising tax, the legislature has moved forward with overriding the governor’s veto. In so doing, they fulfilled the fears of small businesses and consumers worried about having to bear the burden of the new tax. Now the bill’s lead advocate, Senate President Bill Ferguson, is attempting to assuage these concerns with a hilariously ineffective proposal to simply tell digital firms that they may not pass on the costs of the state’s digital tax.
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