Northside Auto in Watertown, WI, is offering a unique promotion for the second year in a row. Through April 15, the shop is paying their customer’s sales tax for them. Last year, it cost the shop about $1,000.

Below is the article as it appeared in the WITI-TV FOX6 website.


Watertown Car Repair Shop Gives Customers a "Tax Break" During Tax Season

By Cathy Orosz
FOX6 Reporter
7:30 PM CDT, March 14, 2010

WITI-TV, WATERTOWN - A car repair shop in Watertown is doing what it can to jump start the local economy. During tax season, the shop owners are waiving their sales tax. Owner John Mason will pay it himself.

"Basically you're going to be saving 5.5% on your parts and labor for any repair," said Mason. From now until April 15th, the car shop will offer the discount to customers who ask for it.

Northside Auto did another promotion last year. It cost the shop about $1,000. This year, the shop owner is prepared to lose twice that. But he hopes to make it up on revving up new business.

To read this article on the WITI-TV FOX6 website, visit http://www.fox6now.com/news/witi-100314-tax-break,0,5667981.story.