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Committee member urges phased business-license redesign, data collection ahead of FY28 implementation
Summary
A Committee member recommended a phased approach to revised business-license classes and targeted tax rates, collecting revenue and contact data during FY27 renewals so the city can implement changes by FY28; no formal vote was recorded.
A Committee member outlined a plan to redesign Norcross City’s business-license and tax-class approach, urging officials to collect business contact and revenue data now and phase in new rates to be ready by fiscal year 2028.
The Committee member said the city should avoid presenting 'do nothing' as an automatic loss and called for accurate, historically grounded projections: "I just wanna be as be careful about saying, oh, we're gonna have losses if we do nothing," the Committee member said. They cautioned that some plant-level and other cost assumptions in past proposals "never all pan out."
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