{"id":10929,"date":"2012-04-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/04\/09\/new-york-yoga-studios-face-sales-tax\/"},"modified":"2012-04-09T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T12:00:00","slug":"new-york-yoga-studios-face-sales-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/04\/09\/new-york-yoga-studios-face-sales-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Yoga Studios Face Sales Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxny.com\/dpp\/news\/new-york-yoga-studios-face-sales-tax-20120402-ncx\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK, U.S., April 2, 2012 (Fox NY): The New York Department of Taxation and Finance decided that yoga studios fall into a category of businesses &#8212; specifically weight control or health salons &#8212; that must pay the city&#8217;s levy, officials said. The state &#8212; which collects the city&#8217;s sales tax &#8212; already began auditing yoga studios, presenting them in some cases with bills for back sales taxes for the past three years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We do see this as a fairness issue,&#8221; according to Edward Walsh, a spokesman for the Department of Taxation and Finance, noting that Pilates studios have to pay sales tax. &#8220;Businesses that provide similar services should be subject to the same taxes in the city.&#8221; The new tax policy was met with cries of protest from the yoga business community. For years, studios budgeted without the expectation of a sales-tax hit.<\/p>\n<p>According to Alison West, executive director of Yoga for New York, a lobbying group, the new tax policy could not have come at a worse time, with the industry just beginning to get back on its feet after the economic downturn, or what she termed &#8220;the yoga crisis.&#8221; Like most businesses, yoga studios likely would pass the sales tax on to the customer, forcing prices up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source NEW YORK, U.S., April 2, 2012 (Fox NY): The New York Department of Taxation and Finance decided that yoga,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}