TRAINING CLASSES!!

All classes held at NJGCA HQ -- 4900 Route 33 West, Wall Township, NJ 07753

                                                                                                                                                               

 CLASSIFIEDS! -- FOR SALE & HELP WANTED ADS

FOR SALE:

Business For Sale: Monmouth County gas station and repair shop in business since 2001 is for sale. Owner is relocating out of state and is interested in selling business and equipment. Owner is open to limited financing. Business has a strong 10 year lease. The building has two repair bays and the gas pumps are leased to a large independent tenant. Repair shop business currently employs a Manager and two full-time Technicians. For inquiries and more info, please call Mark at 908-670-7798.

Business established in 1980. Fully equipped repair shop with 5 lifts including an alignment rack with a 2-year-old Hunter Hawkeye alignment machine. New Hunter tire machine & wheel balancer. AAA aproved and very busy.

Pumping over 1,000,000 gallons per year. 100x300 lot with plenty of parking. Excellent location!!! Call Jim @ 201-851-3084.

         

                                                                                                                                                                         

NEWS AROUND THE STATE: THE NEWS YOU SHOULD KNOW

09/27/2017:
2017 Tobacco Legislative Summary
With only several state legislatures yet to conclude their 2017 legislative sessions, the outcome of various tobacco legislation in most states is now clear. This year, 28 states considered bills to raise cigarette and/or tobacco-product tax rates in some form. Three of these states passed and enacted tax changes, including Delaware (50¢ per-pack cigarette-tax increase, 15% increase on OTP and 38¢ tax increase on moist snuff), NY (modified the tax on large cigars from 75% of wholesale to 45¢ per cigar) and Rhode Island (increased tax rate on cigarettes by 50¢). California voters approved a ballot question last November that raised the state’s cigarette tax by $2 per pack and also increased the OTP tax to 65.08%. These tax increases went into effect on July 1, 2017. Conversely, Minnesota removed the automatic inflator on the excise tax per pack of cigarettes and froze the cigarette tax rate at $3.04 per pack. Additionally, Minnesota reduced the tax cap on premium cigars from $3.50 to 50¢ per cigar.  This year also produced an increasing number of states introducing legislation to assess a new tax on e-cigarettes and vapor products. Fifteen states considered bills to enact a new tax. Of the bills introduced in these states, only two were enacted into law. Delaware passed a new tax on vapor products at 5¢ per fluid milliliter on nicotine solution and NY passed a tax modification on vapor products to 40¢ per fluid milliliter. On the other hand, the Kansas legislature decreased the excise tax on vapor products from 20¢ per milliliter of e-liquid to 5¢.  Finally, 27 state legislatures had bills introduced to raise the legal age to purchase tobacco products to either age 19 or 21. So far, the states of Oregon, NJ and Maine have enacted a statewide law to increase the legal minimum age to purchase to 21 years old. These states join California and Hawaii, increasing the total to five states with a minimum legal age to purchase at 21.
 
09/26/2017:
Trump’s tax plan: business owners win, deficit hawks lose
Small business owners, large corporations and the super wealthy could fare well under President Donald Trump’s tax plan. The middle-class could come out ahead, too, but the plan has too many holes to determine how individual taxpayers would be affected. The plan would reduce the number of tax brackets from seven to three -- 12%, 25% and 35%. But it doesn’t specify the income levels for each bracket. Those important details will be sorted out by Congress. Trump unveiled his tax plan Wednesday at an event in Indiana. The plan was outlined by senior administration officials who asked for anonymity because they were not authorized to be quoted on the details of the frame-work ahead of the president’s remarks. The plan has more winners than losers, largely because Trump is leaving it to Congress to figure out how to pay for it -- or whether to pay for it. For more analysis on who the specific winners and losers will be, and why, please click the link above.
 
09/18/2017:
Six Regulatory Issues Testing the C-Store Channel
Municipalities across the country have levied taxes on sugary drinks. Minneapolis, San Francisco and Chicago have taken jabs at the sacred menthol cow -- which represents 1/3 of the tobacco category. NY circumvented the federal government by enacting its own menu-labeling law. The agonizing duality is that selling regulated or indulgent products often pits retailers against the public health. The business is at once lucrative and dubious. To that end, sometimes retailers fall back. In Minneapolis, some retailers asked for more time to research the matter and measure the economic effects. In fights over regulated products, one of retailers’ strongest arguments is a potential loss of jobs, says Lyle Beckwith, senior VP of government relations for NACS. As debate intensifies, ritual posturing from both sides ensues. Opponents with honed strategies pull out playbooks and sharpen talking points. They learn from defeat and often reuse or reshape tactics that have led to victory in other cities. What follows are examinations of and updates on some of the more onerous ordinances pelting c-stores, including the attack on tobacco, the agony of soda taxes, gas taxes, wage issues, the SNAP situation and dealing with data breaches. They align intimately with what makes the impulse business model work -- and together may combine for catastrophic ends.  To read more about any of these topics specifically, please click the link above.

                                                                                                                                                                 

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TMP Energy Solutions

Another Way to Save on Your Energy Bills

We have had a number of NJGCA members successfully reduce their rate per kWh signing up through our energy saving program. We know it's difficult to collect 12 months worth of previous electric bills to get an "accurate" analysis when comparing a variable rate to a fixed rate, but we now have another option available. 

This new solution is a power purchase option; the other program is still in full force and has saved members thousands of dollars. If you sign up for the power purchase option, you will be grouped with other NJGCA members until the minimum kW demand is acquired. By pooling the member's usage together, you will be able to take advantage, as large energy users do, and receive a lower kWh rate.

Each member will receive their own contract. Each member is responsible to sign and return the agreement the day it is received in order to secure the price for their group.

Please do your due diligence, so when you receive the proposal and the agreement you will be able to make an intelligent decision.

If by chance, you still want us to assess you bills, to give you a price to compare, we will require 12 months of your most recent utility bills.

There are no bills required, but we would still like to have one bill per meter on file to check account #'s, meter #'s  service addresses and other pertinent information incase there is a problem.

The term of the agreement is for 12 months. During this term period, you will have price protection against any energy price increases along with a low fixed kWh rate.

If you are interested in becoming part of this power purchase option, please contact Greg Cannon at the NJGCA.

Remember when you sign up your energy through the NJGCA Energy Program, TMP makes a considerable donation to the NJGCA Scholarship Fund through their proceeds. This has no affect on your rate, and costs you nothing out of pocket.

We hope to help hundreds of NJGCA members reduce their utility costs by participating in this and our other cost reduction programs.  Our purpose, in the endeavor, is to help NJGCA members lower their energy costs while supporting the NJGCA Scholarship Fund. 

Contact GREG CANNON at 732-256-9646 or email Greg at greg@njgca.org. Mention that you are interested in saving money on your energy bills. NJGCA & TMP Energy Solutions will handle all the rest.