Tuesday, 07 February 2012
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William Kelly is a St. Charles dentist, but no one ever said getting him to volunteer is like pulling teeth.
Kelly’s long history of community involvement in St. Charles and also the long tenure of his dentist within the city earned him the 2011 Charlemagne Award Friday night. The recognition is
Kelly came to be in St. Louis, raised in southern Illinois and found St. Charles to establish a dental practice in 1976. Kelly arrived at town after graduating from the University of Illinois and earning a verbal degree as well as an orthodontic certificate from Loyola University. While in school, he met his wife, Joelle.
Kelly’s first dentist operated out of 116½ W. Main St., but success eventually spawned the construction of a dental office of his own at 11 S. Sixth St. Lucrative operates his practice by using his son, Dan.
Throughout his 36 years in St. Charles, he’s devoted several hours for the Fox Valley Special Recreation Association, Special Olympics, The beginning Network, St. Charles Kiwanis Club, United Way, St. Charles Chamber of Commerce, St. Charles Community Chest and St. Patrick Church.
His commitment to making St. Charles and the surrounding area an improved spot to live is exemplified by his dedication to providing opportunities for special needs adults and children, including his own son David, in line with the award description. Kelly twice has been the person receiving the Fox Valley Special Recreation Association “Family with the Year” Award.
“Our recipient has literally touched the lives of thousands in St. Charles,” read the explanation of why Kelly was chosen for the Charlemagne Award. “He continues to produce a positive difference in the lives of his patients every day. Younger crowd continues to volunteer and serve the city he feels he owes a lot to.”
A Chandler dentist is fighting the city’s effort to collect sales taxes on Invisalign braces, arguing that they're prosthetic medical devices not subject to tax and the man will be unfairly targeted.
Dr. Stephen Hunsaker e-mailed City Councilman Jeff Weninger to complain, but a municipal auditor is defending your research, saying it exited one of his office’s routine efforts to find and collect unreported taxes. Hunsaker, who opened Aspen Orthodontics at 3980 E. Riggs Road in 2003, said he's retained an attorney and declined to go over the dispute.
Invisaligns are custom-made, clear, removable covers that realign teeth and cost about $5,000, based on the manufacturer’s website. Municipal sales tax on that amount could be $75; combined state, county and city sales taxes could be $440.
Chandler tax auditor Lee Grafstrom said braces don’t fulfill the definition of tax-exempt medical “prosthetic” devices simply because they “do not support a part of the body or enhance one of the senses. Put simply, the patient’s teeth aren't being locked in the mouth by the trays or braces and the teeth function without or with any sort of dental braces.”
Complicating the problem is that traditional metal braces, although also not considered “prosthetic,” are usually exempt from sales taxes because they are sold as less than 15 percent of the dentist’s total charge. The expense of Invisaligns are a much higher area of the dentist’s charge, Grafstrom said.
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