(A) (1) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, every person or business entity engaged in any business for profit and any person or business entity that is required to make a filing with the Internal Revenue Service or the Kentucky Revenue Cabinet shall be required to file and pay to the city a business license tax for the privilege of engaging in such activities within the city. The business license tax shall be measured by a percentage of the gross receipts according to the following schedule from business conducted in the city by a resident or nonresident business entity.
Gross Receipts | Tax Rate |
First $0.01 to $1,000,000 | $0.0008 |
Balance of income $1,000,000.01 and up | $0.0005 |
(2) Or, at a minimum, $55, whichever is greater, for the privilege of engaging in any business within the city.
(B) The business license tax imposed in this section shall not apply to employees as defined in § 110.01, nor to the following persons or business entities:
(1) Any bank, trust company, combined bank and trust company, combined trust, banking and title insurance company organized and doing business in this state, any savings and loan association whether state or federally chartered;
(2) Any compensation received by members of the Kentucky National Guard for active duty training, unit training assemblies and annual field training;
(3) Any compensation received by precinct workers for election training or work at election booths in state, county and local primary, regular or special elections;
(4) Public service corporations that pay an ad valorem tax on property valued and assessed by the state’s Department of Revenue pursuant to the provisions of KRS 136.120. Licensees whose businesses are predominantly a non-public service who are also engaged in public service activity are required to pay a license fee on their gross receipts derived from the non-public service activities apportioned to the city;
(5) Persons or business entities that have been issued a license under KRS Chapter 243 to engage in manufacturing or trafficking in alcoholic beverages. Persons engaged in the business of manufacturing or trafficking in alcoholic beverages are required to file a return, but may exclude the portion of their gross receipts derived from the manufacturing or trafficking in alcoholic beverages; and
(6) Life insurance companies incorporated under the laws of and doing business in the Commonwealth.
(Ord. 28-2007, passed 12-3-2007; Ord. 7-2016, passed 6-6-2016)