Upon every person engaging or continuing within the City in the business of banking or financial business, the tax shall be equal to $1.00 per one hundred dollars ($100.00) of the gross income received from interest, premiums, discounts, dividends, service fees or charges, commissions, fines, rents from real or tangible personal property, however denominated, royalties, charges for bookkeeping or data processing, receipts from check sales, charges or fees and receipts from the sale of tangible personal property; provided, that gross income shall not include:
(a) Interest received on the obligations of the United States, its agencies and instrumentalities;
(b) Interest received on the obligations of the State or any other state, territory or possession of the United States or any political subdivision of any of the foregoing or of the District of Columbia; or
(c) Interest received on investments or loans primarily secured by first mortgages or deeds of trust on residential property occupied by nontransients; provided, that all interest derived on activities exempt under this subsection shall be reported, as to amounts, on the return of a person taxable under the provisions of this section.
Council hereby finds and declares that it is the intent of Council to subject national banking associations and other financial organizations to the tax imposed by this article, in accordance with the authorization previously contained in West Virginia Code, 11-13-2 and 2K.
(Ord. 2063. Passed 4-21-05.)