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Subject: Oppose Excluding Swipe Fees from Sales Tax
Dear [insert Representative name],
Proposals to exclude swipe fees from the sales tax portion of transactions have been consistently rejected in state legislatures nationwide due to the significant threats they pose to the electronic payment system.
Swipe fees, also known as interchange fees, amount to mere pennies on the dollar and cover essential card-servicing expenses like statements, card issuance, customer service, fraud prevention and protection, and credit monitoring.
Proposed legislation necessitates the creation of new, undeveloped, specialized payment terminals and software. These tools must be designed to detail and transmit data during a transaction, which in turn enhances risks to consumer data privacy. The proposed legislation may lead to a system where two transactions are necessary—one for the item sold and another for the remitted sales tax. While big box stores might reap large windfalls, the burden of the costs will fall on consumers and small businesses. Diminishing swipe fee revenues is crucial for the maintenance and development of innovative payment technology.
Retailers often wrongly attribute elevated swipe fee costs to alleged price gouging by card networks, banks and credit unions. The increase in swipe fees is a direct outcome of the widespread adoption of electronic payments by consumers and merchants for daily transactions.
Government intervention in swipe fees undermines how electronic payments serve and protect consumers and disrupts an ecosystem crucial for the economy to operate and thrive. I ask you to oppose price controls on swipe fees.
Sincerely,
[insert your name]
Contact Your PA House Finance Committee Representatives by District
| District 2 Rep. Robert E. Merski (D) rmerski@pahouse.net (717) 787-4358 |
District 8 Rep. Aaron Bernstine (R) abernstine@pahousegop.com (717) 783-8322 |
District 9 Rep. Marla Brown (R) mbrown@pahousegop.com (717) 783-2017 |
District 26 Rep. Paul Friel (D) RepFriel@pahouse.net (717) 772-1411 |
District 28 Rep. Robert W. Mercuri (R) rmercuri@pahousegop.com (717) 772-9943 |
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| District 43 Rep. Keith J. Greiner (R) kgreiner@pahousegop.com (717) 783-6422 |
District 49 Rep. Ismail Smith-Wade-El RepSmithWadeEl@pahouse.net (717) 772-0752 |
District 54 Rep. Gregory Scott (D) RepScott@pahouse.net (717) 772-0749 |
District 59 Rep. Leslie Rossi (R) lrossi@pahousegop.com (717) 783-9311 |
District 73 Rep. Dallas Kephart (R) dkephart@pahousegop.com (717) 787-7099 |
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| District 93 Rep. Mike Jones (R) mjones@pahousegop.com (717) 783-8389 |
District 111 Rep. Jonathan Fritz (R) jfritz@pahousegop.com (717) 783-2910 |
District 129 Rep. Johanny Cepeda-Freytiz (D) RepCepedaFreytiz@pahouse.net (717) 772-1858 |
District 133 Rep. Jeanne Mcneill (D) jmcneill@pahouse.net (717) 772-9902 |
District 135 Rep. Steve Samuelson (D) samuelson@pahouse.net (717) 705-1881 |
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| District 139 Rep. Joseph Adams (R) jadams@pahousegop.com (717) 783-2037 |
District 150 Rep. Joe Webster (D) jwebster@pahouse.net (717) 787-0419 |
District 162 Rep. David M. Delloso (D) RepDelloso@pahouse.net (717) 783-6437 |
District 173 Rep. Patrick Gallagher (D) RepGallagher@pahouse.net (717) 787-4331 |
District 176 Rep. Jack Rader (R) jrader@pahousegop.com (717) 787-7732 |
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| District 181 Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta (D) mkenyatta@pahouse.net (717) 787-9471 |
District 182 Rep. Benjamin Waxman (D) RepWaxman@pahouse.net (717) 783-4072 |
District 183 Rep. Zachary Mako (R) zmako@pahousegop.com (717) 772-5398 |
District 184 Rep. Elizabeth Fiedler (D) efiedler@pahouse.net (717) 787-5774 |
District 200 Rep. Christopher M. Rabb (D) crabb@pahouse.net (717) 783-2178 |
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