{"id":14327,"date":"2019-02-19T22:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T04:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=14327"},"modified":"2019-02-19T21:04:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T03:04:20","slug":"tennessee-governor-bill-lee-to-repeal-the-gym-tax-in-the-upcoming-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2019\/02\/19\/tennessee-governor-bill-lee-to-repeal-the-gym-tax-in-the-upcoming-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Governor Bill Lee to Repeal the Gym Tax in the Upcoming Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span class=\"subtitle\">Tennessee Governor Bill Lee\u2019s first budget to include Tax Cuts<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-330575\" title=\"Tennessee State Government\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Tennessee-State-Government-2.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee State Government\" width=\"250\" height=\"74\">Nashville, TN <\/strong>&#8211; Today, Tuesday, February 19th, 2019, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee announced his plans to repeal the amusement tax on gym memberships in his upcoming budget.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m pleased to be able to include a tax cut in my first budget,\u201d said Lee. \u201cRepealing the gym tax is an important step in reducing the burdens on small businesses in our state.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_444646\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Tennessee-Governor-Bill-Lee.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-444646\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-444646\" title=\"Tennessee Governor Bill Lee\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Tennessee-Governor-Bill-Lee-480x325.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee Governor Bill Lee\" width=\"480\" height=\"325\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-444646\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tennessee Governor Bill Lee<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The nearly 10 percent amusement tax is placed on memberships to gyms, fitness centers and health clubs and disproportionately impacts small business owners. On the books since the mid-1980s, the gym tax represents approximately $10 million in state revenue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, we\u2019ve discouraged Tennesseans from investing in their health and wellness by taxing their efforts,\u201d said Lee. \u201cThe skyrocketing costs of health care and Tennessee\u2019s high rates of obesity and diabetes means we simply cannot afford to discourage healthy habits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the Department of Health, Tennessee ranks 40<sup>th<\/sup> in the nation for physical activity and 35<sup>th<\/sup> for adult obesity. Recent estimates show that illnesses related to diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease cost Tennessee more than $5.3 billion annually in direct and indirect costs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to working with the legislature to modernize our tax code and prioritize the wellness of Tennesseans,\u201d said Lee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee Governor Bill Lee\u2019s first budget to include Tax Cuts Nashville, TN &#8211; Today, Tuesday, February 19th, 2019, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee announced his plans to repeal the amusement tax on gym memberships in his upcoming budget. \u201cI\u2019m pleased to be able to include a tax cut in my first budget,\u201d said Lee. \u201cRepealing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[12336,12333,2554,216,7417,12337,2558,284,369,6224,7379,261,513,3350],"class_list":["post-14327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-amusement-tax","tag-bill-lee","tag-cardiovascular-disease","tag-diabetes","tag-gym","tag-heath-care","tag-hypertension","tag-nashville-tn","tag-obesity","tag-tax","tag-tdh","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-department-of-health","tag-tennessee-governor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14328,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14327\/revisions\/14328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}