London Congestion Charge (US Embassy)

[Happy Monkey]

DC is in a hard place, financially. A huge amount of real estate is owned by the Federal Government and embassies, and a huge number of DC employees pay their income tax to Virginia and Maryland. Anything they may try to do to offset this can be vetoed by Congress.

Originally Posted by Beestie

I pass by HM on the way into work every morning as I work in DC but live in VA. DC keeps bringing up the the idea of having commuters who work in the city pay DC state income tax but it hasn't gotten off the ground.

That would be overkill, and probably have no chance of passing Congress, but a commuter tax of some sort would be reasonable.