Baltimore City Council
File #: 20-0528    Version: 0 Name: Annual Property Tax - Fiscal Year 2021
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 5/11/2020 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 6/17/2020
Enactment #: 20-369
Title: Annual Property Tax - Fiscal Year 2021 For the purpose of providing a tax for the use of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for the period July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021; providing for estimated billings pursuant to State law; and setting the semiannual payment service charge for that period.
Sponsors: City Council President (Administration)
Indexes: Annual Property Tax
Attachments: 1. 20-0528~1st Reader, 2. CYTR #2 FORM - SIGNED ELECTRONICALLY BY PRESIDENT SCOTT, 3. Copy of CYTR AD PUBLISHED ON 5 16 20, 4. FINAL COPY 20-0528 5 27 20, 5. MULTIPLE WRITTEN TESTIMONY RECEIVED TAXPAYERS' NIGHT, 6. Hearing Notes 20-0528 for Legistar 5 27 20, 7. 20-0528~3rd Reader, 8. Signed Ordinance 20-0528, 9. VOTE TAKEN 20-0528 6 15 20, 10. Hearing notes 6 15 20

City of Baltimore

                     Council Bill 20-0528

                     (First Reader)

                                                                                                                                                           

Introduced by: The Council President

At the request of: The Administration (Department of Finance)

Introduced and read first time: May 11, 2020

Assigned to: Budget and Appropriations Committee                                                                                                                                      

                     A Bill Entitled

 

An Ordinance concerning

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Annual Property Tax - Fiscal Year 2021

For the purpose of providing a tax for the use of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for the period July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021; providing for estimated billings pursuant to State law; and setting the semiannual payment service charge for that period.

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Section 1.  Be it ordained by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, That for the period July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021, a tax is levied and imposed for the use of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore on all property in the City of Baltimore (except property exempt by law), as follows:

 

(a)                     except as otherwise specified in item (b) of this section, a tax of $2.248 is levied and imposed on every $100 of assessed or assessable value of real property; and

 

(b)                     a tax of $5.62 is levied and imposed on every $100 of assessed or assessable value of:

 

(1)                     personal property; and

 

(2)                     operating real property described in State Tax-Property Article § 8-109(c).

 

Section 2.  And be it further ordained, That this tax shall be paid and collected in the manner prescribed by law including the provisions of Section 10-210 of the Tax-Property Article of the Annotated Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland.

 

Section 3.  And be it further ordained, That for the period July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2021, the semiannual payment service charges to be imposed under State Tax-Property Article section 10-204.3 is 0.33%.

 

Section 4.  And be it further ordained, That this Ordinance takes effect on the date it is enacted.