BERLIN – Berlin officials agreed to waive business license fees for contractors hired by the town.
On Monday, the Berlin Town Council voted 4-1, with Councilman Dean Burrell opposed, to, refrain from charging business license fees to companies working directly for the town.
“There would not be any sense in charging them the license fee because they would simply pass that cost back to the town,” Town Administrator Mary Bohlen said.
Last month, the council updated the code to give the town the ability to charge business license fees to any businesses that operated in town, not just those with physical locations in Berlin. Bohlen told the council this week that as a follow-up to that ordinance, she was asking the council to waive those fees for contractors who worked for the town.
“This was an oversight on my part,” she said.
So they outright admitted the “business license fee” is actually a tax to Berlin residents. Lol- the truth comes out when they are trying to save themselves money – apparently they are not concerned about the lowly residents saving $