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Rhode Island ACLU Sues Over Tax Law That Discriminates Against Nonfiction Authors

WORDS Posted: May 10, 2019 11:03 am

“The suit revolves around a 2013 law designed to help creative workers by offering authors, composers and artists in Rhode Island a sales tax exemption. But in a bizarre twist, state tax officials have decided the law applies only to authors of fiction, because nonfiction is not ‘creative and original.'” – Publishers Weekly

WORDS Published: 05.10.19

Read the story in Publishers Weekly Published: 05.10.19

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