A plan to grant a tax break worth millions of dollars to the developers of the proposed Superblock downtown drew a packed house to a City Council hearing Wednesday evening. The incentive would allow Lexington Square Partners to have a ...

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A key committee of the Baltimore City Council voted Monday afternoon to send a proposed 3-cent increase in the city’s bottle tax to the full council for a vote this month. The Taxation, Finance and Economic Development Committee voted out ...

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A Baltimore developer has written a blistering letter to City Hall disputing proposed tax breaks for the $150 million Superblock project downtown. The May 1 letter from David H. Hillman, chairman and CEO of Southern Management Corp., to Mayor Stephanie ...

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ANNAPOLIS — A Senate panel that helps guide state spending will be discussing a big budget-balancing measure. The Senate Budget and Taxation Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing on the state’s budget reconciliation and financing measure on Wednesday. The ...

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David Houston has joined brg CPAs as tax manager in the tax department. Houston was previously a member of bgr CPAs from 2004-2009. Houston is a graduate of American University’s Kogod School of Business, where he received a Master of ...

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An investigative hearing into the $1.8 billion redevelopment of Middle East by East Baltimore Development Inc. will continue at City Hall on Nov. 9. Councilman Carl Stokes adjourned a contentious three-hour hearing before the City Council’s Taxation, Finance and Economic ...

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FLINTSTONE — Energy industry representatives and skeptics clashed Thursday over taxation issues and a three-year timeline for studying the risks and benefits of natural-gas drilling in Maryland’s section of the Marcellus Shale. With lucrative production from Marcellus wells under way ...

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MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS Administrative Law, Withdrawal of election to review: Once the District Council of Prince George’s County elects to review a decision, it is not permitted to withdraw that election and it must hold a hearing on the ...

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Constitutional Law Taxation BOTTOM LINE: For purposes of the Tax Injunction Act, an excise “tax” imposed by a county, which applied only to a single business entity which was unable to pass on the fee to its consumers, was actually ...

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The Baltimore City Council is expected to vote Monday night on a bill that would create a special district in Harbor Point, the slice of waterfront property located between Harbor East and Fells Point, so millionaire developer John Paterakis Sr. ...

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