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Article: SPECIAL SESSION ON TAXES
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 20, 2009
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ARLINGTON
SPECIAL SESSION ON TAXES - A Special Town Meeting will be held on
Nov. 16 to consider enacting a local-option tax on restaurant meals
and raise the levy on hotel rooms. The Board of Selectmen voted
unanimously Monday to convene the session, based on the potential
for the new taxes to boost the town's revenues. Last month, Town
Manager Brian Sullivan told the board that he supports the
additional meals tax, noting that surrounding communities such as
Cambridge and Boston have already done so. If both increases are
approved, the town stands to gain about $68,000 in hotel taxes and
$200,000 in meal taxes, he said. Residents who wish to have other
issues taken up at the meeting must ...