Is L.A. Unfairly Taxing Unincorporated-Area Businesses?
As the financial crisis tightens its grip on California, the pressure to squeeze out more local revenue is causing rifts between the city and county governments -- and the results are not pretty. Last week the County Board of Supervisors unanimously supported a letter proposed by Supervisor Gloria Molina and backed by her colleague Mike Antonovich, advising the City of Los Angeles to stop taxing businesses that lie outside its borders.
are subject to County zoning and business license requirements."
Gerry Hertzberg, who works as Molina's policy and political director, set the background.
to stop and they didn't.
Now we're asking the city to refund these folks."