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Decatur council adopts local vapor-product tax, agrees to set implementation date later
Summary
The Decatur City Council approved an ordinance authorizing licensing and a 10¢-per-milliliter tax on consumable vapor products, and directed staff to return with a resolution specifying when the city will begin collecting the tax.
The Decatur City Council voted to adopt Ordinance 25-4-613 authorizing licensing and taxation of consumable vapor products and declaring that the city — not the state — will collect the local portion of the new levy. The ordinance was approved on a council vote after public comment from retailers and distributors who warned of economic harm to local shops if the city begins collecting earlier than the state. The measure obliges the city to decide whether it will collect the tax locally before the state’s October 1 deadline. Council members said the ordinance must be adopted before that date even if the council later delays actual collection. Council staff said they will prepare a…
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