by KYW's Mike Dunn
One part of Mayor Nutter's new budget that is sure to draw fire is his plan to boost the city parking tax.
Nutter wants to raise the parking tax from 15 percent to 20 percent. That means a $10 garage bill would tack on $2.00 in tax rather than $1.50.
Nutter says this will generate an extra $16 million, to be used mainly on three things:
"More tree plantings throughout the city as part of our environmental initiative, additional funding for Fairmount Park, a jewel of a park system that has been underfunded for a long time -- and lastly, critically needed street resurfacing all over Philadelphia."
The Chamber of Commerce and garage owners have fought parking tax hikes in the past, but Nutter believes that business owners will live with this as they as seeing stepped-up business tax cuts in another part of his budget.
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