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Lakewood to raise out-of-city business-license threshold to $4,000 starting Jan. 1, 2026
Summary
Economic development staff presented an ordinance to increase the exemption threshold for businesses that do not maintain a local place of business from $2,000 to $4,000, with automatic four‑year inflation adjustments; adoption was scheduled for the council regular meeting the following week.
Becky Newton, Lakewood’s economic development manager, presented a proposed ordinance (No. 834) at the Aug. 11 study session to modify LMC 5.02.020 by raising the threshold that exempts businesses from the city’s general business-license requirement. Under the change Newton described, the exemption threshold for businesses that do not maintain a place of business inside the city would increase from $2,000…
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