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State Representative Scott Dianda is looking to change the way the cost of a liquor license is calculated for first-year business owners.
Dianda’s bill would require that liquor licenses be prorated based on the approval date of the application if the license will be effective for less than nine months after the approval of the application and upon issuance of the license.
This would apply to new and transferred liquor licenses.
Currently, liquor license fees are due on April 1 of each year.
If a new store owner were to apply for a liquor license and receive it in January, that business would owe the full amount of the license fee at that time.
Then, come April 1, they would owe the full amount again.
Dianda said he sponsored this same bill in the 2014 legislative session, and it passed overwhelmingly in both chambers before being vetoed by Governor Rick Snyder.
