RonNV’s misapprehension is a common one. In fact, say experts, what most businesses ask about before relocating is Nevada’s education system. It has kept more than one business from setting up shop here. Taxes are a factor, for sure, but not the most significant one.

And let’s talk about businesses moving to adjacent states. Do you know that they have a tax on business income? So by RonNV’s logic, so long as Nevada adopted a business tax but kept its rate lower than competing states, we’d be OK.

And why, we wonder, would a company like Bank of America have its offices in a place like San Francisco, where it is forced to pay California business taxes, and not in Nevada, were there are no such taxes? Hmmm? That’s something we’d like to see accounting explain.

We need commercial businesses to relocate and expand in Nevada. Companies look to the tax situation very carefull before they do anything. I am a CPA and tell it the way it is. If taxes are increased in a haphazard way businesses will relocate to Utah or Idaho or somewhere else. We do not want to be like California which is losing businesses due to excessive state income and corporate taxes.