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Los Angeles council moves to study fiscal impact of grocery-tax repeal after large public comment
Summary
After more than an hour of public comment, the City Council voted to ask the City Administrative Officer for a fiscal and impact report on a proposed initiative that would repeal a grocery tax; labor and community speakers urged protecting workers and city services while councilmembers debated economic and budget trade-offs.
The Los Angeles City Council on April 15 voted to request a City Administrative Officer (CAO) fiscal-impact and related impact reports on a proposed initiative concerning city gross receipts/taxes, following a lengthy bilingual public-comment period.
Public comment was dominated by labor and community speakers who said recent wage increases tied to major events had materially improved workers' lives and warned that repealing the grocery-tax measure (or similar initiatives) would strip funds from general…
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