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A lawyer has dropped his suit against Pizza Hut over charging an 8.5 percent sales tax after the Florida Supreme Court had voided the Hillsborough transportation surtax. However, similar suits ae pending over sales taxes paid by customers purchasing banana splits and oil changes at separate businesses.
Hillsborough sales tax lawsuits move on from pizza to banana splits
The legal claims say businesses collected an 8.5 percent tax after the Florida Supreme Court voided the transportation surtax.
Hillsborough transportation tax debate informed by new poll
Riders gather at a Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority bus stop at the University Area Transit Center in 2019. Citing a new poll of residents in unincorporated Hillsborough, Commissioner Stacy White says more money should be earmarked for roads and less for mass transit if a transportation surtax is approved by voters in 2022. [LUIS SANTANA | Times]
Sixty-two percent of respondents said they wouldn’t use public transit, but one-third say it is very important to the community.
Hillsborough County on road repairs: Pay now or pay more later
LUIS SANTANA | Times Hillsborough County Ideally should budget $700 million over the next 10 years to preserve its existing network of roads, sidewalks, bridges and traffic signals, county commissioners learned Wednesday in a transportation workshop. Shown is the 2018 widening of State Road 60 in Brandon. .[Photo Luis Santana | Times (2018) ]
Administrators say the county needs a 10-year, $700 million investment to meet a growing list of transportation fixes.
Could Florida get another chance at high-speed rail under Biden?
A Brightline passenger train passes by on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019, in Oakland Park.
‘Florida is such a great candidate for rail,’ Pete Buttigieg said. The state has heard that before.

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