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The "rain tax" raised revenue to improve the stormwater management system while creating a financial incentive to minimize the construction of and replace current impervious surfaces. [4] Collection of the stormwater fee on impervious surfaces varied from annually on the property tax bill to quarterly on the water bill. [ 3 ]
Homeowners will bear the brunt of the rain tax: of the $14.8 billion to be raised -- $482 million each year until 2025 -- about three-quarters will come from residential property owners.
In March 2013, Impallaria voted against a bill to raise the state gas tax and index future increases to inflation to replenish the state's transportation fund, which passed by a 76-63 vote. [57] On April 13, 2015, the Maryland House of Delegates voted to repeal the unpopular mandate colloquially known as the "rain tax", by a vote of 138-1. He ...
A stormwater fee is a charge imposed on real estate owners for pollution in stormwater drainage from impervious surface runoff.. This system imposes a tax that is proportional to the total impervious area on a particular property, including concrete or asphalt driveways and roofs, that do not allow rain to infiltrate.
Otto opposes proposals to build a wind farm off the coast of Ocean City, Maryland, supporting legislation in 2018 that would've required turbines to be built 26 miles offshore. [14] The bill received an unfavorable report in the Environment and Transportation Committee. [15] In 2014, Otto introduced bills to repeal Maryland's "Rain Tax". [16]
Heavy rain brought flash flooding to parts of Maryland on the afternoon of Wednesday, August 11.This footage, filmed by Tim Pfeiffer shows vehicles driving through a flooded residential street in ...
In March 2015, Pruski said he opposed a full repeal of Maryland's "Rain Tax", but supported finding ways to reduce the fees imposed by the tax. [23] In April, he voted against bills that would repeal the stormwater fee in Anne Arundel County.
With more than a whiff of linkage between Nixon’s choice of Agnew and Trump’s of Vance, the notion of an insurance policy and antidote against conviction by the Senate must have some merit.