Does anyone know why. Maybe Samantha will read this and ask them.
Should the city enact a .75% tax on the knox county end, to get our share. If we did, then I bet the people would let Knox County to pay up or else.
I'm asking here, does anyone know why we haven't sued.
How many years has it been.
I agree. This subject would be great for an investigative report. Corbin is the only city in Kentucky in which its occupational tax within its city limits actually goes to another city. How would citizens of Barbourville feel if their tax dollars went to the City of Corbin? That would not be fair either. Corbin must take action.
Corbin just won't stand up for our people and community. It is not right for workers in Corbin and businesses in Corbin to pay occupational taxes in which some of them actually go to another city....Barbourville. Do you think any other communities in Kentucky would let that happen to them without a fight?
Corbin just won't stand up for our people and community. It is not right for workers in Corbin and businesses in Corbin to pay occupational taxes in which some of them actually go to another city....Barbourville. Do you think any other communities in Kentucky would let that happen to them without a fight?
This is such baloney. Barbourville gets a portion of the tax roughly equal to what they would get if they collected it themselves.
Corbin just won't stand up for our people and community. It is not right for workers in Corbin and businesses in Corbin to pay occupational taxes in which some of them actually go to another city....Barbourville. Do you think any other communities in Kentucky would let that happen to them without a fight?
This is such baloney. Barbourville gets a portion of the tax roughly equal to what they would get if they collected it themselves.
What gives Barbourville the right to take any share of taxes from workers and businesses inside Corbin's City limits regardless of who collects it? This is the only area in Kentucky in which tax dollars paid by residents and businesses of one city are distributed to another city. Why should Barbourville or get money from inside Corbin? That is taxation without representation for the people of Corbin.
Corbin just won't stand up for our people and community. It is not right for workers in Corbin and businesses in Corbin to pay occupational taxes in which some of them actually go to another city....Barbourville. Do you think any other communities in Kentucky would let that happen to them without a fight?
This is such baloney. Barbourville gets a portion of the tax roughly equal to what they would get if they collected it themselves.
What gives Barbourville the right to take any share of taxes from workers and businesses inside Corbin's City limits regardless of who collects it? This is the only area in Kentucky in which tax dollars paid by residents and businesses of one city are distributed to another city. Why should Barbourville or get money from inside Corbin? That is taxation without representation for the people of Corbin.
Are you dense? What the poster's telling you is that Barbourville is getting a percentage of the tax it deserves. What's left goes to Knox County.
I heard again this week that Corbin is the only city in Kentucky whose citizens and businesses in the city(Corbin) pay occupational taxes in which all the tax is split by the County(Knox) with another city (Barbourville).
I would say that Knox county is in such financial strap that Corbin doesn't want to be the one that bankrupts them with a lawsuit. If Corbin wants the money, all they would have to do is stop sending Corbin's part of the payroll tax to them.
If they check the laws, city payroll tax and county tax is illegal, it is double taxing. Like in London, if the city passes the tax, even though the county already has one, the county looses all the tax base inside the city.
I am all for the cities payroll tax. But I don't think it should go to Knox county for them to waste or blow like they have done for the last 20 years. Let them get there own industry, outside the city limits and draw there tax off that.
Oh, but I guess no industry will come due to the fact there is no police, or the fire insurance would be outrageous.
Personally, I don't care what happens to the knox fiscal court. Whether they go bankrupt is not an issue with me. It's the people that live in the county's fault concerning the financial shape they're in, they keep electing people that put them in that position.
I've heard about the payroll tax issues concerning collection and such. No county or city has really ever challenged it as far as I've read or heard.
These occupational tax ordanances they pass aren't really taxes, they're license fees. A city or county can't really pass a "tax", even though that's what it is, they can only pass a work license fee. In most all cases, it's 1%. I think a few cities have one a little higher, although I'm not sure. (that gives me a new idea for a new post)
Commissioner Farris bragged that the city had a million dollars in the bank. That's good. I would rather take some of it, and sue the pants off of knox county and get our share of the tax money than do nothing. Yes, that's right, I'd rather lose some cash fighting for what's right, than to sit on my hands ans do nothing and watch the knox fiscal court take our cash and literally throw it to the wind.
As far as being for the payroll tax, do you work or live in knox county? Would you be for paying another 1/2 or 1% on top of the tax you pay now if corbin activated an additional tax just on knox county? Honestly, I'd like to know. Because that is one avenue we can pursue, double taxing the knox county side of corbin.
