Pennsylvania small businesses, non-profit organizations, veteran groups, and volunteer fire halls rely on the supplemental income from skill games to keep their doors open.
Commonsense regulation and a reasonable tax rate would not only support these establishments but the commonwealth as a whole, generating an estimated $300 million in tax revenue in the first year alone.
Contact your legislators today! Tell them to ONLY support commonsense regulation and fair taxation for skill games.

Lawmakers Should Only Support Commonsense Regulation and Fair Taxation for Skill Games

I am writing to you today to urge you to vote NO on Senate Bill 756, recently filed legislation that will harm small businesses, veterans groups, and volunteer fire departments. This legislation is no compromise! Rather, it intentionally imposes an unreasonable, anti-business tax rate on skill games that will harm small businesses and important community organizations already struggling in a tough economy. In fact, SB 756 would impose the highest tax increase on small businesses and fraternal organizations in our Commonwealth’s history.

Instead, I call on you to support Sen. Gene Yaw’s bill – SB 626 – commonsense skill game legislation with a fair tax rate. This legislation would establish a much-needed regulatory structure for skill games, along with an attainable tax of 16%. Skill game locations already pay income taxes on the games. This proposed 16% tax would be an additional, industry-specific tax.

Many Pennsylvania small businesses and fraternal organizations rely on skill games for supplemental, sustainable income. These establishments include family-run mom-and-pop restaurants and bars as well as community-centered organizations such as VFW halls, American Legion posts, and volunteer fire departments. Income from skill games goes toward creating and sustaining jobs, paying competitive wages, making critical location updates, offering employee benefits, donating to charitable causes, and so much more.

An astronomically high tax rate for skill games, like that proposed in SB 756, would unfairly target these small businesses and non-profit organizations while simultaneously reducing tax revenue for the state. In fact, SB 756 will harm those establishments that rely on skill game income the most. If locations can’t justify keeping legal skill games, the state will lose that tax revenue at best - at worst, some locations may replace legal games with illegal machines.

Please vote NO on SB 756. This misguided legislation will only harm important community institutions in your district!

Thank you for your service to our Commonwealth.

Contact your legislator TODAY

Tell them to vote NO on Senate Bill 756

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