- We are local, family-owned Connecticut businesses that employ Connecticut workers and provide a discretionary service to Connecticut motorists. Simply put, this recently imposed NEW 6.35% tax on carwashes will hurt our industry and cause the loss of jobs.
- A tax on carwashes was put in for a brief 3-year period in 1989, but it was found by the legislators to be so unworkable, create disparate treatment within the industry, cost too much to track and collect and ended up not raising the anticipated revenue that it was repealed very quickly.
- We have many different types of modern equipment all of which make it impossible to have this work fairly. We have Full Service Carwash Tunnels with employees, Coin-Operated Automatic Carwashes and Self-Service Coin-Operated equipment, coin operated vacuums & vending as well.
- How will we collect 6.35% cents on a $1 coin operated vacuum machine? The automatic collection equipment used carwashes cannot be programmed to function in increments of pennies, nickels and dimes. This type of equipment does not exist.
- CT carwashes hold many charity washes here for local community groups. Will we have to charge them the sales tax? Also, will you also then collect the tax on charity carwashes held at town halls, schools, churches and McDonalds?
- We provide important jobs to our local and state economy that will be dramatically impacted by this NEW tax. Carwashes employ thousands of unskilled, entry-level workers and provide a solid paycheck for these employees and their families. What happens when we have to lay them off and they go on unemployment? Does that save the state any money?
- We would respectfully request that you reconsider this NEW tax on carwashes and would like to work with you to help make Connecticut a better place to work and live.