1. Leave it to DC to find a way to screw something positive up.
2. Someone get Michelle Obama on the line…
Via Opportunity Lives:
Washington, D.C. recently placed a new tax on fitness studios, yoga instructors, and gyms. The tax, referred to by many as a “yoga tax”, effectively makes all kinds of exercise-based services 5.75% more expensive.
The tax has motivated many of those who own small fitness businesses in the city to organize against it. Graham King, who owns the Urban Athletic Club, played a key role in driving the opposition to the tax. He began reaching out to other fitness club owners and created a Facebook page urging people to “make calls to the mayor and city council to have our voices heard.”
It was the straw that broke the camel’s back … I thought it would be imprudent for me to increase my expansion without knowing the effects of this tax.”
He told Opportunity Lives that taxing fitness in what the American College of Sports Medicine recently labeled America’s fittest city “constitutes a slap in the face to Washingtonians.”