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High-dollar lobbyists, conservative activists come together to oppose Wyoming corporate income tax

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In the past five weeks, the Wyoming Legislature has examined a property tax, a tax on wind energy, and taxes on hotel rooms, cigarettes and vape products.

None of those taxes, however, have attracted the attention or scrutiny that House Bill 220 – or the National Retail Fairness Act – has managed to draw.

After rushing through the House of Representatives, the effort to introduce Wyoming’s first corporate income tax has garnered the wrath of a cadre of foes, including lobbyists for multi-million dollar companies and Washington D.C. think tanks. That opposition has arisen despite the measure having a significantly smaller impact than any revenue proposal pitched this year, Senate Revenue Committee Chairman Sen. Cale Case, R-Lander, said Thursday night.

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