Some independent gas station owners said they would ultimately end up covering the costs themselves in order to compete with gas stations in other towns.<\/p>\n
The city council is also talking about charging homeowners and businesses an extra $3.50 monthly fee for garbage collection.<\/p>\n
Naperville is trying to fill a $14 million budget deficit. They’ll vote on the measures March 2.<\/p>\n
Business owners in St. Charles are fighting two new taxes that could cause major economic hardship.<\/p>\n
The city wants to expand an admissions tax normally charged on major fairs and expos to include movie tickets, theatres and sporting events.<\/p>\n
That would add 40 cents to the average $8 movie ticket.<\/p>\n
The city also wants to increase the liquor tax by 2 percent.<\/p>\n
St. Charles claims the new taxes would bring in more than $1 million in new revenue.<\/p>\n
Business owners say the estimate is overly optimistic because the new taxes would drive customers to other communities.<\/p>\n
Read the original article from FOX Chicago News<\/a>.<\/p>\n Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n Tax proposals in Naperville and St. Charles are drawing backlash from businesses and citizens. Gas station owners in Naperville say a proposed fuel tax will end up coming out of their pockets. They went to a city council meeting Tuesday night where members are debating an additional 3 cent tax on gas. Some independent gas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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