Even as a tripartite committee meets to work out the details of City Hall’s container tax, earnings from the interim $5,000 fee have amounted to $12 million for one month.
The City Treasurer’s report for September 2016 states that the city collected $77,024,423 in revenue for the month, $12,395,000 of which were payments for the containers being unloaded in the city.
Attempts by the city to implement what was then a $25,000 fee resulted in clashes with the business community. In June, Town Clerk Royston King had said that businesses unloading containers in the city were
