The D.C. Council on Tuesday voted 8 to 5 to approve a resolution by Council Chair Phil Mendelson (D-At-Large) to postpone the Council’s final vote on the city’s fiscal year 2021 budget to give the Council time to figure out how to drop a controversial sales tax on advertising that the Council attached to the budget on July 7 in a preliminary vote.
Mendelson said he would immediately ask the city’s Office of Budget and Planning to identify ways to cut $18 million from the budget or to find new sources of revenue to offset the $18 million that the city’s Chief Financial Officer projected would be generated by the advertising tax as originally introduced.