Madison Residents Protest New Business License Fees

January 27, 2012

Residents and county supervisors debated the fairness of the new Madison County business license fees at the supervisor’s monthly meeting last week.

Many residents protested the unfairness in the new business license regulations that exempt many businesses from paying the $30 business license fee. According to Madison County Board of Supervisors Chairman Dave Allen, many of the exemptions come from state law and the county can’t do anything about them.

Madison News reports that Supervisor Doris Lackey said, “Right now, it sounds pretty muddled. We really do want to understand and want to have all of the businesses that operate in the county have licenses -- how do we go about that? This great confusion over the exemptions I think is certainly has to be addressed. I would rather see us require a license from every business and not attach a fee to it, if what we really want we do is understand what are the operating businesses in the county and not have any exemptions and have everybody who does business in the county have a license.”

Other supervisors disagreed with Lackey and claimed that the current regulations are fair and should be upheld.

The county business license fees are due by February 29, 2012. However supervisors may postpone that date in order to settle the business license disagreements.

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