A recently enacted tanning tax is getting on Gators’ nerves, but the “orange” in Orange and Blue isn’t going anywhere.
As part of the health care reform law signed by President Barack Obama in March, all tanning services that use ultraviolet lamps with wavelengths between 200 and 400 nanometers are taxed an additional 10 percent by the IRS, according to Alligator archives, and the money is used to fund the new health system.
Chris Geisenburg, who owns Tan USA on Northwest 39th Avenue with his wife, said the tax hasn’t turned his customers away, but they do gripe about it.
“No one likes it,” he said, “and they really don’t like it when they find out they’ve got to pay for that health care.”
Geisenburg said he doesn’t believe the new tax is fair to his mostly female customers.
“More women are paying this tan tax than anyone else,” he said. “It’s really a discriminatory tax.”
Read the full story at the Independent Alligator.
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