Following a week of criticisms from businesses and their lobbyists, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Friday that he will ask the legislature to walk back or delay certain business taxes in an upcoming special session.
The governor said he will support delaying until 2016 a new unitary tax on companies with operations in multiple states. He also hopes to keep the state’s computer and data processing tax at 1 percent, rather than raising it to 3 percent over the next two years.
“It would have been very expensive to those companies, particularly insurance companies, to pay that tax,” Malloy said.
However, state consumers may still face a new 1 percent World Wide Web tax on iTunes downloads and similar Internet purchases.
Malloy said he supports eliminating a new tax on car washes and parking.
To make up for the reduction in new tax revenue, Malloy plans to ask lawmakers to authorize him to reduce state spending by 1.5 percent across the board, though he said that would not include pension contributions or obligations to state workers.
Malloy’s late morning press conference followed a recent meeting with Joe Brennan, CEO of the Connecticut Business & Industry Association.
