Posted on 02/15/2021 12:58:31 AM PST by Libloather
The pandemic caused counties across the state to issue varying levels of business shutdown orders meant to slow the spread of a life-threatening virus.
Now businesses that lost their ability to make money during the pandemic want a tax refund for the time they were forced to hang “closed” signs.
Lawmakers heard competing arguments about property tax rebates this week.
Businesses say the closures put them on the brink of shutting down for good. Local governments warn they don’t have the resources to be offering mass tax refunds.
A pending bill is a first step in a larger discussion looming before lawmakers: Should either the state or local governments be required to compensate the businesses that public officials ordered to close during the pandemic?
“We are fighting for the survival for our business,” Nick and Jake’s restaurants co-owner Kevin Timmons told lawmakers.
The legislation would require counties to refund taxes paid by property owners during times the county ordered businesses closed.
Timmons said businesses like his restaurants in the Kansas City area had to close by government orders and should get a break on taxes because of it.
“Reduced revenues through lockdowns and restrictions have forced us to make choices that were previously unthinkable,” he told lawmakers. “Do we pay property taxes or do we pay payroll?”
Government officials argue it’s not as simple as just giving businesses back the taxes they paid.
“The assumption of the legislation is we’re sitting on piles of money,” Sedgwick County Commissioner Jim Howell said. “That’s not true. We’ve actually spent those dollars providing services.”
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Government workers still got a paycheck.
LOVE IT!!! lol
Amen.
Who was it that said government works for us?
Meet professor tar and doctor feather.
Stop paying the taxes if the business is shut
I would bet that had such legislation been in effect prior to the start of COVID, we would have seen far fewer closures.
They’ve worked around that problem by pretending schools are still operating “remotely” here in NJ; 2/3 of our property taxes go right into those schools (passing through teachers unions to Dem candidates).
Shills, glowies, trannies, faggots and chinks thing the same
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