{"id":14953,"date":"2013-01-07T13:45:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T21:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-business-and-occupation-tax-in-full-swing\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T01:25:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T08:25:34","slug":"kent-business-and-occupation-tax-in-full-swing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-business-and-occupation-tax-in-full-swing\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Business and Occupation tax in full swing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>The Kent Business and Occupation (B&amp;O) tax adopted last October by the City Council is now in full effect.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The B&amp;O tax is intended to help raise an estimated $5 million annually to pay for street repairs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>All companies doing business within Kent city limits must register with the city&#8217;s Customer&#8217;s Services Division.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Vendors and other suppliers of goods and services to businesses within city limits might have to pay as well.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>More information can be found on the city of Kent <a href=\"http:\/\/kentwa.gov\/content.aspx?id=22319\" target=\"_blank\">website <\/a>or by e-mailing Business-Occupation@kentwa.gov.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kent City Council Business and Occupation (B&amp;O) tax adopted last October is now in full effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-14953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14953"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}