This veterinarian put her sleuthing skills to good use when she was hit with a suspicious fee situation. When I opened my practice in 1992, there was no business license fee, or tax, in the city of St. Louis, Mo. Yearslater in the late 1990s, the license collector sent notice that I had to pay a business license fee that was calculated based on how many people I employ. They called this a graduated license fee.I called local colleagues and found that some were paying the fee, some were not, and still others had never even heard of it. I paid the fee.
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