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Some San Jose Pot Shops Owe Millions in Unpaid Marijuana Taxes

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Submitted by Marijuana News on Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:38

Records reviewed by the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit show there are five marijuana businesses that owe the City of San Jose more than $2.1 million dollars in unpaid taxes, penalties and interest.

“Whether we want to be or not, we are somehow or another regulating a medical drug, something no city in the country really knows much about,” said San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo.

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The 1996 Compassionate Use Act legalized medicinal marijuana in California. Voters in San Jose then approved Measure U in November 2010, allowing the city to tax the sale of medical marijuana. Since then, the city has collected more than $17 million from the 10% Marijuana Business Tax on sales from collectives and dispensaries.

But records requested by the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit show five currently operating marijuana businesses in San Jose are “non-compliant” with the city’s tax law.

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