{"id":11205,"date":"2012-07-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/07\/29\/new-york-s-yoga-studios-excused-from-state-sales-tax-more-spiritual\/"},"modified":"2012-07-29T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T12:00:00","slug":"new-york-s-yoga-studios-excused-from-state-sales-tax-more-spiritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/07\/29\/new-york-s-yoga-studios-excused-from-state-sales-tax-more-spiritual\/","title":{"rendered":"New York&#8217;s Yoga Studios Excused from State Sales Tax: &#8220;More Spiritual&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/yoga-ruled-true-exercise-state-tax-department-article-1.1123779\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK, NEW YORK, July 27, 2012 (New York Daily News): State Taxation and Finance Department officials have ruled that that Yoga is not a &#8220;true exercise&#8221; activity under the tax code and therefore not subject to sales taxes. The Tax Department ruled that Yoga Salons, unlike gyms and other fitness centers, practice more spiritual activities, including &#8220;meditation and spiritual chanting.&#8221; The ruling brings to a close a dispute that erupted in April when the Tax Department notified Yoga salons across the city that they could be audited for unpaid sales taxes. &#8220;I am pleased that State Finance recognized the unfairness in treating Yoga studios like gyms and other fitness centers, and will not be charging independent studios the tax,&#8221; said Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal (D-Manhattan), who interceded on behalf of city Yoga owners.<\/p>\n<p>The 4.5% tax still applies on yoga classes taught at gyms and fitness studios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source NEW YORK, NEW YORK, July 27, 2012 (New York Daily News): State Taxation and Finance Department officials have ruled,&#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-11205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11205","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=11205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}