The New Castle County Council Finance Committee is asking the Delaware General Assembly to authorize a local tax on recreational marijuana sales, citing the need to support public safety and community workforce programs.
In a discussion during Tuesday's finance committee meeting, councilmembers reviewed Resolution 25-070, which calls on state legislators to allow the county to impose a local tax of up to 5% on retail marijuana purchases.
Councilman Kevin Caneco, who introduced the measure, said the proposal is modeled after similar local taxes on lodging and justified by the county's role in land use planning and public safety oversight related to cannabis retail operations.
"We feel that it'll be beneficial since we do a lot of the work that goes into the land use planning, our public safety department planning into this," Caneco said. "It would be beneficial for us to be able to raise revenue off this."
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