Niles can't rescind license plate fees tax this month

NILES — Residents will still have to pay $10 in additional license plate fees in 2010 despite council’s intention to rescind the tax this month. The reason: The repeal hasn’t come soon enough.

Council had enacted the fees in October to enable the city to collect the revenue in the event voters approved similar taxes on the countywide ballot in November.

At the time, council members promised to repeal the fees if the county issues were defeated. Both fees were rejected by a wide margin.

“The state told us that we had to rescind the fees 90 days before the end of this year to keep the tax from being collected in 2010 because that’s when the Bureau of Motor Vehicles sets up its computers [for tax collections],” said Mayor Ralph Infante. “There was no way we could rescind 90 days prior because the election wasn’t until November.”

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