Maryland's New Fees -- Are They Really Taxes?
The Daily Record (Baltimore) › October 22, 2004
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Gill Cochran is still angry.
It's now been more than three months since the state's new $23.6 billion budget went into effect, and he remains upset at a little- known provision in the all-encompassing Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act.See the full content of this document
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Maryland's New Fees -- Are They Really Taxes?
As a lawyer in Baltimore who specializes in defending people involved in DUI incidents, Cochran was more than a little upset when he discovered that the fee his clients would have to pay if they wish to appeal a sanction was going to rise from $15 to $125.
That's an 833 percent increase.It's not as high-profile as the $30 flush tax that will help clean the Chesapeake Bay, or the $47 increase in car registration costs, but a fee is a fee as far as Co...See the full content of this document
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