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KCMO businesses to see potential fee cut in 2021

The Kansas City, Mo. City Council will discuss a proposal this week that suggests a slash in operation fees service industry businesses are required to pay. If approved, the cut could potentially decrease or waive fees for businesses struggling during COVID-19.

Kansas City, Mo. Mayor Quinton Lucas is proposing a plan to ease the costs to do business in the city, potentially saving some businesses hundreds of dollars.

The service industry and other small businesses have a variety of fees they need to pay to operate in Kansas City.

Business licenses, liquor cards and restaurant inspection fees are all recurring expenses, some costing hundreds of dollars. This plan would defer, decrease or, in some situations, waive these fees.

Many in the service industry have showed strong support for the proposal.

“The Greater Kansas City Restaurant Association supports Mayor Lucas’s resolution to review fees charged to businesses,” Greater Kansas City Restaurant Association executive director Bill Teel said in a statement. “Any relief that can be provided to our Kansas City restaurants is both welcomed and needed.”

The proposal will be introduced during the next City Council meeting on Thursday, Dec. 3. If passed, it would go into effect before 2021.