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Liquor board-backed bill would drop Sept. 30 special-Sunday deadline, align tax timing for Baltimore license renewals
Summary
The Baltimore City Liquor Board-backed House Bill 1425 would remove an arbitrary Sept. 30 application deadline for special Sunday sales at packaged-goods stores and align the city personal-property tax compliance date with the April license-renewal cycle; the subcommittee approved the amended bill unanimously and sent it to the full delegation.
Michelle Wurzberger, deputy executive secretary for the Baltimore City Liquor Board, told the Alcoholic Beverage Subcommittee that House Bill 1425 makes two technical changes intended to simplify compliance for licensees while keeping the board’s regulatory authority intact. “This bill … creates 2 changes, basically, that will allow us to simplify our processes, make them a little bit less cumbersome for licensees while not in any way negatively impacting our ability to regulate licensees,” Wurzberger said.
The first change would eliminate a statutory Sept. 30 application deadline for a special Sunday license that allows Class…
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