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(1) Describe the impact of taxes on major sectors of
the business and industrial economy relative to other
sectors; and

 
(2) Describe the relative impact of each tax on
business and industrial sectors.

 
C. When determining the overall incidence of taxes under
this subsection, the bureau shall reduce the amount of taxes
collected by the amount of taxes that are returned directly
to taxpayers through tax relief programs.

 
Sec. 9. 36 MRSA §707, sub-§2 is amended to read:

 
2. Property of veterans. The value of the real property of
veterans, their widows, widowers and minor children not taxed;

 
Sec. 10. 36 MRSA §841, sub-§4, as repealed and replaced by PL 1979,
c. 73, is amended to read:

 
4. Veteran's widow or widower or minor child.
Notwithstanding failure to comply with section 706 or section
1181, the assessors, on written application within one year from
the date of commitment, may make such abatement as they think
proper in the case of the unremarried widow or widower or the
minor child of a veteran, which if the widow, widower or child
would be entitled to an exemption under section 653, subsection
1, paragraph D, except for her or his failure to make application
and file proof within the time set by section 653, subsection 1,
paragraph G, provided that the veteran died during the 12-month
period preceding the April 1st for which the tax was committed.

 
Sec. 11. 36 MRSA §1752, sub-§1-B, as amended by PL 1995, c. 281, §11
and affected by §42, is further amended to read:

 
1-B. Automobile. "Automobile," for purposes of subsection 17-
A, paragraph H 17-B, means a self-propelled 4-wheel motor vehicle
designed primarily to carry passengers and not designed to run on
tracks.

 
Sec. 12. 36 MRSA §1752, sub-§1-D, as amended by PL 1989, c. 847, §1,
is further amended to read:

 
1-D. Casual sale. "Casual sale" means an isolated transaction
in which tangible personal property or a taxable service is sold
other than in the ordinary course of repeated and successive
transactions of like character by the person making the sale.
"Casual sales sale" include includes transactions at a bazaar,
fair, rummage sale, picnic or similar event by a civic, religious
or fraternal organization which that is not a


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