{"id":1052,"date":"2019-08-17T11:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T18:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2019-08-17T17:37:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T00:37:51","slug":"city-council-tax-of-the-day-segways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=1052","title":{"rendered":"City Council Tax of the Day: Segways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The San Diego City Council recently passed a tax for Segway tour businesses. The regulations require the businesses to get a permit from the city\u2019s risk management department and to pay an operator\u2019s fee of $53. They must also purchase commercial liability insurance of $1 million per incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Business owners say this measure will severely impact them due to the increase in the cost of doing business and the loss of revenue associated with the increased price in a competitive market. According to one business owner, Bridgette Bisogno, having to pay more for insurance and compensating the city would put her out of business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Proponents of the new regulations claim that it will protect the taxpayer. Councilman Scott Sherman said that <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201chaving been in business for 27 years, there\u2019s a lot of things that the city has charged me for and I wasn\u2019t happy about, but I had to pay it to stay in business. Our job is protecting the taxpayer here, and I think this is what we need to do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The only member who didn\u2019t vote for the tax was Councilwoman Barbara Bry. She claimed it was due to it being unfair that the Segway industry would be directly taxed while the kayak and bicycle industries would not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Council is required to vote a second time in order to ratify the tax, but a date has not been set. The Segway tour industry can only hope that the Council changes its mind in the near future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@kellysikkema?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Kelly Sikkema<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Diego City Council recently passed a tax for Segway tour businesses. 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