In case you lost track of the coming Albany rain tax, here’s a reminder: It takes effect March 1 and will start showing up on the city’s combined water and sewer bills next month.
News for a gray day: Rain tax
Written November 14th, 2016 by Hasso Hering
The November rain is back, which reminds me: Albany’s rain tax, in the works for most of the past two years, now is set and will show up on city utility bills starting in March.
The rain tax: An expense for some
Written October 11th, 2016 by Hasso Hering
Many homeowners may hardly notice Albany’s planned new storm water utility fee — a rain tax, in other words — when it takes effect next year. But for the city’s utility customers with the largest amounts of impervious surface, such as schools and companies with big buildings and parking lots, it will be a bigger expense. How much […]
Rain tax sidelight: A little mystery?
Written September 5th, 2016 by Hasso Hering
The campaign to prepare Albany ratepayers for a rain tax continues. I was reminded of the city’s plan for a “storm water utility” on Monday when I passed a storm drain from which flowed a thin but steady stream. The mystery: Where was that water coming from since it’s been days since we’ve had not a “storm” but a few […]
Albany rain tax: How about ‘tiers’?
Written June 20th, 2016 by Hasso Hering
Depending on the size of the footprint of their houses, Albany single-family residential water and sewer customers would pay 50 cents more or less than the proposed standard $6.74 monthly storm water utility fee — or rain tax as IÂ like to call it — under a three-tier system proposed to the city council Monday.
Ballot title muddies rain tax issue
Written May 2nd, 2016 by Hasso Hering
Albany’s plan to impose and collect a fee for storm water management — a rain tax, as I’ve called it — is being clouded by legalistic hair-splitting. So let’s try to lay it out straight.
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‘Rain tax’? This case proves it
John Robinson has to pay Albany’s rain tax on property he owns even though it does not drain to any city system. His case illustrates that what the city calls a storm water utility charge is not a service fee but in fact a tax.
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