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The Tax Foundation Site Search --> Site Search >Contact Us Press Room Tax Freedom Day Tax Policy Podcast Commentary Tax Legislation Events Staff The Tax Foundation 2001 L Street, N.W. Suite 1050 Washington, D.C. 20036 202.464.6200 August 21, 2007 State Legislature Tackles Controversial Issue of Pet Grooming by Alicia Hansen Every year state legislators face a myriad of tough tax and budget issues: state income taxes, budget shortfalls, property taxes, etc. And of course there is that most controversial of all taxes: the sales tax on animal bathing. From the Tennessee Department of Revenue's Web site : Effective June 22, 2005, Public Chapter 499, Acts of 2005, amends Tenn. Code Ann. Section 67-6-102(a)(28)(F)(v) to make the total sales price charged for bathing an animal subject to the full state and local sales tax rate. The provision for taxing only 15% of a single charge that includes both bathing and grooming of an animal is repealed. Laundering or dry cleaning of tangi...