Baltimore City Council
File #: 13-0298    Version: 0 Name: Excise Tax on Passenger-for-Hire Services - Temporary, Retroactive Repeal
Type: Ordinance Status: Withdrawn
File created: 11/18/2013 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 1/11/2016
Enactment #:
Title: Excise Tax on Passenger-for-Hire Services - Temporary, Retroactive Repeal FOR the purpose of temporarily repealing the law providing for the imposition, administration, and collection of an excise tax on passenger-for-hire services; providing for a special, retroactive effective date; and providing for the automatic termination of this Ordinance on a date certain.
Sponsors: Mary Pat Clarke, Bill Henry, Helen L. Holton, Sharon Green Middleton, Carl Stokes, Warren Branch, James B. Kraft, Brandon M. Scott, William "Pete" Welch
Indexes: Excise Tax, Passenger-for-hire services, Repeal
Attachments: 1. 13-0298 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. Downtown Partnership - 13-0298.pdf, 3. VISIT Baltimore - 13-0298.pdf, 4. Law - 13-0298.pdf, 5. BDC - 13-0298.pdf, 6. Finance - 13-0298.pdf
EXPLANATION: CAPITALS indicate matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.

INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL

Introduced by: Councilmember Clarke

A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning
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Excise Tax on Passenger-for-Hire Services - Temporary, Retroactive Repeal

FOR the purpose of temporarily repealing the law providing for the imposition, administration, and collection of an excise tax on passenger-for-hire services; providing for a special, retroactive effective date; and providing for the automatic termination of this Ordinance on a date certain.
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BY temporarily repealing
Article 28 - Taxes
Subtitle 24 - Passenger-for-Hire Services
Baltimore City Code
(Edition 2000)

SECTION 1. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That City Code Article 28, Subtitle 24 {“Passenger for Hire Services”}, is repealed, retroactive to June 18, 2013.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That any tax levy under City Code Article 28, Subtitle 24 {“Passenger for Hire Services”}, after June 18, 2013, and before the effective date of this Ordinance, is void and of no effect, and any payments of that tax, whenever made, must be refunded.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That this Ordinance takes effect on the date it is enacted. It will remain in effect until the 180th day after the enactment of this Ordinance, at which time, without further action by the Mayor and City Council: (i) this Ordinance will be abrogated and of no further effe...

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