The state’s 10 most populated counties are required by law to implement a stormwater utility fee by July 1. The revenue will be used to fund their respective watershed protection and restoration programs, designed to prevent pollutants from entering the Chesapeake Bay. Seven jurisdictions have set a fee, but three others are still in the process of setting fees or getting local approval.
The bill requiring the tax, HB 987, passed in 2012, left it up to counties to set the fees themselves. Here is the Maryland Department of the Environment’s explanation of the fees.
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6 comments:
WQW! WHAT A PAGE OF BULLCRAP! Dodge and weave...dodge and weave...but never answer the question! Pay this tax, and things will just get better every day, believe me!
This is the most outrageous tax I've ever seen. WTF has happened to MD. No reason or explanation.
O'Malley is as bad as Obama .
Just another excuse to fund the stupid Bay Cleanup , it's been going on for years now and has become a part of us like our children. If you do your homework , you will find that the bay never sees most of the money provided for clean up .
1980 I was catching the limit on oysters , catching the limit on all fish in the bay and rivers.
The more money we provide the worse it gets. No oysters in the Nanticoke , no fish to amount to anything , The funds have been spent , but the Bay is worse shape than ever.
what's next snow tax? how about sunshine tax? anyway to make some money !
I am now going to increase prices at my shop on every rainy day.
The elitists have us where they want us.
PLEASE! Pay your rain tax. People in neighboring states do NOT want YOUR pollution. How hard is that to understand especially since your Governor explained it kinda.?
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