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THE BANNERGRAPHIC January 18,1992

House okays Crosby bill on mail order taxes

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Out-of-state companies would be required to collect the state’s 5 percent sales tax on mail-order sales to Hoosiers under a bill approved by the Indiana House of Representatives. On the 11th working day of the 1992 session, representatives also approved on Friday bills to impose new regulations on disposal of the chemical agent VX and to liberalize the state’s voter registration law. THE MAIL-ORDER sales tax proposal in House Bill 1029, approved 89-10, could generate up to

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SSO million in additional sales tax revenue, said Rep. Susan R. Crosby, D-Roachdale. “It’s not a new tax. It just enhances our state’s ability to collect on existing taxes,” said Crosby, the sponsor of the bill. Under current law, Indiana residents are supposed to report their purchases from out-of-state companies and remit the sales tax to the state. However, only $371,000 was collected that way last year, said Crosby. THAT COULDN’T be a realistic figure of the tax due, said

Crosby, who carried to the podium a basket filled with mail-order catalogues she received last year. Crosby’s bill would require companies that don’t have places of business in Indiana but regularly solicit business from Hoosier customers to register for retail merchants certificates. The companies would have to collect the 5 percent tax on orders from Hoosiers and return the collections to the state Department of Revenue. The bill would apply to giant mail-order companies such as L.L. Bean and Land’s End, as well as to home shopping channels on cable television. Crosby said the constitutionality of such measures is still in question, but she said legal experts expect the U.S. Supreme Court to rule in North Dakota’s favor in a case testing the legality of such state laws. BY A 98-0 vote, lawmakers endorsed a bill that would force the Department of Defense to meet additional state requirements before disposing of the chemical agent VX stored at a military facility in Newport The department has proposed on-site incineration as a way of

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REP. SUSAN CROSBY Not a new tax disposing of the nerve gas at Newport and other sites. The department is under a congressional mandate to dispose of chemical weapons. Rep. R. Jerome Kearns, D-Terre Haute, said his H.B. 1134 would require proof, before a permit for disposal is issued, that the method of disposal has been tested and found to be safe elsewhere. The bill would also require training for disposal workers and an evacuation plan. WITHOUT SUCH safeguards, Kearns said he feared a small amount of the potent gas could escape and cause illness or death. Depending on the prevailing winds, the gas could carry as far east as Marion County, he said. By a 65-34 vote, the House also approved a bill that would allow

IBM reports $2.8 billion loss; first drop since ’46

NEW YORK (AP) IBM Friday reported a 1991 loss of $2.8 billion because of two enormous expenditures, one a setaside for future retirement benefits and the other for a previously announced cost-cutting program.

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mail-in voter registration and would also require many government agencies to conduct voter registration. H.B. 1239, also sponsored by Kearns, would require voter registration sites to be set up in city and town halls, Indiana Department of Employment and Training Services offices, Bureau of Motor Vehicle license branches and the Division of Family and Children offices. ADDING THE mail-in registration and hundreds of other registration offices should increase the number of registered voters, which has been in decline, said Kearns. In 1990, 32.4 percent of eligible Hoosiers weren’t registered to vote; in 1988, the figure was 29.3 percent Also on Friday, the House approved bills that would: • Establish a state commission to study the social status of black males. • Beef up inspection requirements for school buses. • Impose a state tax on illegal drugs confiscated in arrests of drug dealers or distributors. • Raise by sl2 million over the next 18 months the cap on state tuition support payments to public schools. This would allow the state to make up for an anticipated shortfall in aid to schools that was caused by higher-than-expected enrollment last fall. The extra money will come from other education appropriations that are returned unspent at the end of the fiscal year. All of the measures approved by the House now go to the state Senate.

International Business Machines Corp, also reported its first year-to-year drop in revenue since 1946, a decline of 6.1 percent from 1990 to $64.8 billion. IN THE FOURTH quarter of 1991, IBM lost $1.4 billion, or $2.42 a share, due to the $3.4 billion charge to pay for the cost-cut-ting program. That compares with a profit of $2.5 billion, or $4.30, in 1990’s fourth quarter. Fourth-quarter revenue totaled $22.1 billion, down 4.2 percent from $23.1 billion in the same quarter a year earlier. “1991 was a disappointing year,” IBM Chairman John F. Akers said. “We were adversely affected by protracted worldwide economic weakness, competitive pressures and transitions within our product lines.” ANALYSTS ARE less concerned with the huge 1991 net loss than with IBM’s operating profit, which shows how the company’s underlying business is faring independent of any accounting charges.

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Release of memo on Hussein talk

WASHINGTON (AP) The State Department is under court order to release a memo written by onetime Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie on her meeting with Saddam Hussein a week before the 1990 invasion of Kuwait. U.S. District Judge Charles R. Richey ruled the State Department had given up its right to keep the document secret BUT THE JUDGE denied a request by consumer activist Ralph Nader’s Public Citizen organization to release six more documents and said he would continue to consider whether to release a seventh. The July 25, 1990, meeting between Glaspie and the Iraqi president was a pivotal issue in the debate over whether the United States had led Saddam to believe it would not intervene if he tried to take over his tiny, oilrich neighbor. Public Citizen filed suit last April under the Freedom of Information Act, contending the government waived its right to keep the documents secret by discussing the Glaspie-Saddam meeting in public. IN HIS RULING earlier this week, Richey ordered the State Department to release a twopage memorandum sent by Glaspie to a department official concerning the publication of an Iraqi transcript of the meeting. “The information in this document was publicly acknowledged,” Richey said, ruling the government had waived its right to withhold it. He ordered the document released by Jan. 31. Richey said he would consider ordering the release of a second Glaspie memo but would first give the Slate Department another chance to convince him it should not be released, or to delete some sections. THE DOCUMENTS Richey refused to release, according to Public Citizen attorney Theresa A. Amato, included four cables describing and analyzing Glaspie’s meeting with Saddam, a report on the Iraqi transcript with her markings on it and drafts of a proposed opening statement to Congress, which were not used. Richey who examined all of the documents in private said those six documents “contribute to ‘an ongoing deliberative process within an agency,’ reflecting the give-and-take leading up to a decision.” The Iraqi transcript fueled the debate over the meeting. It said Glaspie told Saddam the United States would not take sides in “Arab-Arab conflicts like your border disagreement with Kuwait.” IN CONGRESSIONAL testimony last spring, the former ambassador acknowledged she made the statement. But she said she also told Saddam the United States would insist that any dispute be settled peacefully. That statement was omitted from the Iraqi transcript, she said.

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