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Manhattan Beach introduces code cleanup for business licenses, orders tax study for broader changes
Summary
The City Council introduced Ordinance No. 26-0005 to modernize administrative language and procedures in the city's business license code and authorized a tax study and public polling to evaluate broader, voter-approval changes to the tax structure.
The Manhattan Beach City Council on March 3 introduced an ordinance to update the city's business license regulations and voted to commission a tax study and public polling to inform potential ballot measures.
Finance director Libby Bretthour told the council the ordinance (No. 26-0005) implements 10 Phase 1 priorities aimed at administrative cleanup: clarifying mobile- and sidewalk-vendor rules, setting the license due date to April 30 to match practice, replacing language that incorrectly called the charge a "fee" with "tax," refining confidentiality and record-keeping rules,…
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