{"id":6133,"date":"2016-06-05T04:58:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T04:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/?p=52579"},"modified":"2016-06-05T04:58:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T04:58:14","slug":"lawmakers-press-treasury-department-on-marijuana-tax-fairness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/lawmakers-press-treasury-department-on-marijuana-tax-fairness\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers Press Treasury Department On Marijuana Tax Fairness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/lawmakers-press-treasury-department-on-marijuana-tax-fairness\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>A pair\u00a0of Congressional\u00a0Democrats are asking\u00a0the Treasury Department to reinterpret a federal law they say results in marijuana businesses being taxed at an unfair rate. Under Section 280E of the Internal Revenue Code, cannabis businesses aren\u2019t able to write off normal operating expenses such as\u00a0rent, utilities and payroll from their taxes. The provision\u00a0applies to anyone who [&#8230;] Thanks to marijuana.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair\u00a0of Congressional\u00a0Democrats are asking\u00a0the Treasury Department to reinterpret a federal law they say results in marijuana businesses being taxed at an unfair rate. Under Section 280E of the Internal Revenue Code, cannabis businesses aren\u2019t able to write off normal operating expenses such as\u00a0rent, utilities and payroll from their taxes. The provision\u00a0applies to anyone who [&#8230;] Thanks to marijuana.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2417,9,1,3],"tags":[2419],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}