Proposed City Budget Calls for New Taxes
The city's $2.3 billion operating budget begins to implement Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's 10-year financial plan.
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s proposed $2.3 billion fiscal year 2014 operating budget aims to close a $30 million deficit with new taxes and changes in the civilian employee pension systems. The proposed budget includes a tax cab excise tax of 25 cents a trip, counts on $1 million in revenue from a billboard tax and maintaining the current tax rate, which was set to decline in fiscally year 2014 at parking lots and garages at 20 percent. "The preliminary budget represents a significant step forward in implementing major fiscal reforms, as we proposed in the 10-year financial plan, Mayor Rawlings-Blake said in a news release. "Implementing the ten-year plan, starting with this year’s budget, will require tough trade-offs and major …
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10:49 am on Monday, May 6, 2013
And just for the rocord, I pay over 10K in property taxes to baltimore city and I have no kids in school all the city does for me is pick up my trash so i pay more than my fair share in taxes. and when i call 911 it takes way to long for them to show up. Good thing I own guns and can defend my own household. more ›