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Manhattan Beach presents four business-license tax models to business community ahead of council briefing
Summary
City staff and consultant HDL presented a business license tax modernization study with four models—removing the cap, a single gross‑receipts rate, a raised cap, and category rates—and solicited business feedback before a May 12 council briefing and possible ballot measure this fall.
City of Manhattan Beach finance staff and a consultant team laid out four alternative ways to modernize the city’s business license tax at a public forum and asked businesses to weigh in before the proposals go to City Council.
Libby Bret, the city’s finance director, opened the session and said the code has not had a comprehensive review in roughly 50 years. Emmy Rose Hannah, the city’s financial services manager, described phase two of the modernization effort as the part that would change tax structure and therefore require voter approval. “Phase two priorities…trigger voter approval,” she told attendees.
Consultant Eric Meyers of HDL summarized the study’s findings and four illustrative models. He said the city’s current business-license cap is about…
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