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Apopka denies plan to sunset local business tax receipts after staff and public caution
Summary
The commission voted 4–1 Aug. 20 not to approve an ordinance that would have sun‑set the city's local business tax receipt requirement, after economic‑development staff outlined alternatives for data collection and businesses and commissioners warned the change would strip a vital data tool before the new office is established.
The Apopka commission voted 4–1 on Aug. 20 to reject an ordinance that would have automatically ended the city's local business tax receipt (BTR) requirement at the end of the fiscal year.
Antoinette Forbes, the city’s economic development director, told commissioners she had researched alternatives to the BTR for collecting business‑registry data, including Orange County lists, the Orlando Economic Partnership and public databases available through library subscriptions. “Alternative data collection is possible,” she said, but…
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