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Iowa should end the sales tax exemption for equipment bought for data centers.
Iowa exempts servers and other data center equipment from its sales tax to attract large tech facilities. Ending the exemption would raise state revenue and increase costs for data center projects.
Zach Lahn
So what I called for is to cut the gas tax by 50% and make up for those funds by stopping the tax breaks we're giving to data centers right now.
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