Nominate your Peers, Co-Workers & Partners for the Best In Maryland Awards. This year’s program focuses on the individuals rather than the work products, so we’re looking for the best PR pros, teams, students, educators and partners! Nominations due April 2! Click here for details.
Kathleen Kelly Undergraduate Scholarship deadline is April 9. This year the board is awarding two $500 scholarships to worthy students – pass the word! Click here for details.
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PRSA-MD is redesigning, redoing and relaunching our website and we are looking for a partner who can help us with design, advice and all those pesky technical details. The deadline for proposal submission is March 29. Take a look at our RFP and send us your proposal!
PRSA-MD Urges Maryland Government to Reject Two Proposed Tax Bills Calling for a Tax on Public Relations Firms and Consultants as Well as on Digital Work
PRSA Submits Letter to Maryland House of Delegates Ways and Means Committee; Advocates Rejection of HB 1051
PRSA MD today urged the Maryland House of Delegates Ways and Means Committee to avoid passing into law a tax bill that would diminish or severely restrict the ability of Maryland-based public relations firms and consultancies to offer competitively-priced services to clients. The committee is scheduled to convene a hearing March 6, 2012, to hear 12 bills, one of which is House Bill 1051.
In a letter to Sheila E. Hixson, Chair of the Maryland House of Delegates Ways and Means Committee, Nneka Jenkins and Laura LaChapelle, APR, co-presidents of PRSA-MD, asked members of the committee to thoroughly consider the impact on Maryland businesses and, subsequently, the Maryland economy if the proposed six percent tax is added to the 29 additional services included in this bill. The impact on public relations firms and consultancies alone would cripple their ability to do business within the state, as it would be all too easy for existing and potential clients to take their business to nearby jurisdictions who don’t have this tax, including Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania and Delaware.
“Imposition of the sales tax required by HB 1051 on services provided by PRSA-MD members would essentially cripple Maryland-based public relations firms and, especially, public relations independents and consultants,” Jenkins and LaChapelle stated in the letter.
Jenkins and LaChapelle also stated in the letter that the proposed tax, if passed, “would put those businesses collecting the “new tax” at a competitive disadvantage to companies in neighboring Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, Virginia and Delaware.”
Click here to view the full text of PRSA-MD’s letter to the Maryland House of Delegates Ways and Means Committee.
For more information and updates, please read PRSA-MD’s blog post regarding the two proposed tax bills.
PRSA MD is proud to announce the 2012 Board of Directors. Click here for the full list.
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