SNOW HILL – Citing the millions in grants provided to the resort each year, attorneys for the Worcester County Commissioners late last week filed a motion to dismiss the civil suit filed earlier this year by the Town of Ocean City over the long-standing tax differential issue.
In January, after years of veiled threats, Ocean City filed a petition for declaratory judgment against Worcester County seeking judicial relief on the tax differential stalemate. In simplest terms, tax differential, or a tax setoff, may be granted by a county to a municipality for services and programs duplicated by the two jurisdictions.
Last Friday, attorneys for the Worcester County Commissioners filed a motion to dismiss the case or, in the alternative, enter summary judgment in favor of the county. While Ocean City is asserting the town is owed tax differential, or a tax setoff, because of the services and programs the municipality provides to its residents and visitors, services the county would otherwise have to provide, Worcester County contends the unrestricted grants it provides to the town each year satisfies the cost of duplicated services.
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6 comments:
Good luck with that.
Salisbury should join in that case and sue Wicomico County for tax relief ASAP.
Maybe I should file a law suit against Ocean City for haveing to deal with all the drunks pulling off the road in front of my house throwing trash out and pissing on my property, after leaving the bars in town.
If ocean city ever gets this differential, it'll never get passed to the tax payers. You read it here first, they will piss every bit away on pie in the sky projects, reminding the residents thier taxes "didn't go up". It's the windfall they've been waiting for. Dennis and Ricky's dream cover-up coming to reality.
Denny and Ricky won't be around long enough to see any future resource windfall in OC. Their time has come/gone - many are very fed up now (those with lots of resources) and new change is coming soon! They (City Hall) know and there isn't a damn thing they will be able to do about it.
anyone who lives year round in a tourist trap town deserves to be screwed by the town.
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