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Originally Posted by huge-pigeons
All of your info is wrong about these increases. Every villager would be happy to pay the $130 increase for firefighters/emu’s. The problems were that they were going to gouge every retailer here by many thousands of $$$ per year, which would have increased the cost of doing business here by quite a bit. From what I heard, a company like Galaxy would have their tax increase go from $1000 (+ or -) a year to over $12,000 a year. This was the area that people most complained about when it was dropped. We all pay the village tax if we use a company that operates in the villages, this new fee would have just made that tax go up for every villager.
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Most counties charge a fire fee to businesses based on square footage. Lake County charges by the square foot. Look up their charges. Look up all the other metropolitan areas in Florida and you will see businesses all pay much more than they do here in Sumter County. They either charge fire impact fees and/or fire assessment fees on businesses. based on square footage. I don’t know why people post alarmist statements about “overcharging” businesses when Sumter County has a ridiculous system that favors business over residents. Look it up. $124 per rooftop and no fire impact fees for businesses is one of the lowest in Florida!