BERLIN – Town officials agreed to double the business license fee and explore creation of a trader’s license for companies doing business in Berlin.
The Berlin Town Council voted 4-1 this week to double the business license fee from $75 to $150. While the rate will be the same for all businesses this year, staff are expected to explore a new rate structure based on either location or type of business going forward. They also instructed staff to begin laying the groundwork for establishing a trader’s license, which is already in place in many towns.
“They expect it,” Councilman Steve Green said. “I think it’s a missed opportunity to help offset some expenses.”
Last month, officials talked about plans to double the business license fee, which hasn’t been increased since it was created more than a decade ago. Councilman Dean Burrell, however, suggested staff consider different rates based on location. He indicated businesses on Main Street, for example, should be charged more than businesses on Old Ocean City Boulevard.
On Monday, Ivy Wells, the town’s economic and community development director, said she’d met with Mayor Zack Tyndall and Town Administrator Mary Bohlen regarding Burrell’s suggestion.
Join the Club !!! Due to BIDEN everything in America has Doubled & More !!!! Except our PAY of course !!!!
Look out Bill Outten, your vendors will be leaving in mass
Democrats.
Fines, fees, surcharges, taxes, and “licenses”.
They spent every waking hour dreaming up new schemes and reasons for the schemes in order to take more and more of your (our) money.
This is what they do.
They NEVER improve anything, upgrade any services, or fix any problems. Just keep taking your money. Because, they say, if they only had more of your money, they could make a more beautiful world!
WHY WHY WHY do you continue to not only VOTE FOR THEM (!!), but allow them to continue breathing??
Start hanging them. In public. On TV. And to make sure none of their family or friends wants to follow in their democratic, liberal, dumbass footsteps, make THEM watch — and kick the chair out from beneath their feet.
Radical? Damn right.
But so is their agenda.
DOUBLE the fee? And tell us, dumorats, exactly WHAT will businesses RECEIVE from this doubling???
Answer? NOTHING.
Hanging is starting to get a better appeal, isn’t it??
Ok, keep cheering, then.