Side Effects: New Tanning Tax Burns Business Owners

Brandon Stewart / April 07, 2010

In the days and weeks following the signing of Obamacare into law, Administration officials have attempted to promote all of the legislation’s immediate impacts. Owners of tanning salons across the country are already seeing one of those immediate impacts—a whopping 10% tax.

One salon owner in Western Oregon laments in an interview with a local TV station, “10% of everything you make to the federal government. That is tough on top of all of the taxes we are paying today.” Another salon employee at a Michigan-based business echoed those concerns in a separate interview complaining, “It’s not fair. This is a choice and now the government is telling you because you make this choice we are going to give you a 10% tax on this. Where’s it going to stop?” (more…)