VT Exempts Donated, Used Building Materials from Sales Tax

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In what is, to our knowledge, a first, the

State of Vermont has exempted the sale of donated, used building materials from sales tax. Bill number H. 771, signed into law by Governor Howard Dean on April 29, 1998, officially exempts “sales of scrap materials generated in the course of construction or demolition and diverted from waste disposal at the construction or demolition job site; provided that the sale is not by the generator and is by a person who received the materials from the generator with no payment.” This bill was reportedly introduced as a result of lobbying by Cindy Blakeslee of Residuum, a used building materials store in Barre, Vermont.