PG Delegates attempting to reduce school share of telephone tax revenue

Comment:  When the Tax and Spend General Assembly voted to ignore the will of the voters and force a telephone tax on Prince George's County, they justified their actions by claiming that the money would be used for the schools.  Now they want to reduce the school system's share to 80 of the revenue collected.  Once again they are demonstrating that they cannot be trusted to keep their promises about the use of money from new and increased taxes.

HB 1095  (PG 412-09)


Entitled: Prince George's County Telecommunications Tax - School Funding

Synopsis:

Requiring that 10% of the revenue from the Prince George's County sales and use tax on telecommunications service be used for operating expenditures of the Prince George's Community College; and altering the percentage of the revenues from the Prince George's County sales and use tax on telecommunications service that is required to be used for operating expenses of the Prince George's County school system.

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(Posted 15 Feb 2009)