Bag Tax

Description

On May 3, 2011 Montgomery County passed legislation (Bill 8-11) that places a five-cent charge on each paper or plastic carryout bag provided by retail establishments in the County to customers at the point of sale, pickup or delivery. Retailers retain 1 cent of each 5 cents for the bags they sell a customer.  This dataset represents information that has been captured since this law went into effect. Update Frequency - Monthly

Resources

Name Format Description Link
8 https://data.montgomerycountymd.gov/api/views/xnjh-vgc4/rows.csv?accessType=DOWNLOAD
40 https://data.montgomerycountymd.gov/api/views/xnjh-vgc4/rows.rdf?accessType=DOWNLOAD
55 https://data.montgomerycountymd.gov/api/views/xnjh-vgc4/rows.xml?accessType=DOWNLOAD
23 https://data.montgomerycountymd.gov/api/views/xnjh-vgc4/rows.json?accessType=DOWNLOAD

Tags

  • bag
  • tax
  • plastic
  • paper
  • shoppingbag

Topics

  • Local Government

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