Senate panel backs extending sales tax to services like Uber and Lyft for mass transit funding

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<div>A Senate panel has endorsed extending state and regional sales taxes to services such as Uber and <b>Lyft</b> in order to raise more than $21 million a year ... the sales tax on the services "provides greater parity with traditional taxis" because nontraditional carriers such as Uber and <b>Lyft</b> don't pay the same ...</div>