Today we have a special and free feast served up in the style of an Italian five-course menu — loaded with stories about all of the recent meals tax issues, developments, promises, and questions that will (hopefully) be followed soon with answers. So grab some bread, a big plate of pasta, and a bit of red wine…this might take a while.
Buon appetito!
STORY #1 - ANTIPASTI — Effusively Polite And Practically Poetic
As noted, two weeks ago City Council approved the change to city code to make sure the city’s Finance Department only applies meals tax payments to the month for which the invoice is submitted. So, no more of the shady practice that had been applying a portion of say, May’s tax payment, to an outstanding balance from April’s bill. The reason that’s a bad idea is that the city could put any account in arrears but the business owner never knew because the city had a practice of not informing the business they were in arrears, which led to the crazy snowballing of interest and pena…
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