Revise or eliminate the municipal share of county income tax money . Many cities have surpluses equal to or greater than their annual budgets. If services are not prorated properly in the county, the non-city Taxpayers subsidize the city budgets. And the counties have a harder time scheduling services to work around city services. Give counties the veto power over municipal annexation.
Cities annex land and in the process destroy county planning efforts.
Oppose targeted income tax exemptions or deductions for those receiving retirement income. MTA was asked what we thought about exempting the retirement of State Police from Maryland Income Tax. MTA was asked about exempting retired Federal employee pensions from income tax. MTA was asked about exemptions for others. MTA would support S.B. 285 to give all retirees over 65 years of age and the disabled an exemption.