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FDRA raises objections to proposed extra tax on athletic shoes

07/02/2013
The Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America (FDRA) has called on a politician in Illinois to re-think a proposed 25-cent increase in state sales tax on athletic shoes.

State representative William Davis has proposed the extra tax for sales of all new athletic shoes in retail outlets throughout Illinois.

FDRA said the proposal meant footwear retailers in the state would have to file “additional burdensome tax paperwork, which could impact retail worker hours or even jobs”.

Matt Priest, FDRA’s president, insisted that footwear imported into the US is already taxed by up to 67% in some cases before state sales taxes apply. “Shoes are in fact one of the highest taxed goods families and children need,” he said. “We should be working to lower the cost of shoes for working families, not increase them.”


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