The Town of Columbus is out approximately $3,500 a year after the state took away municipalities’ ability to charge privilege license taxes, or business licenses.

Columbus Town Council met Thursday, Oct. 15 and approved repealing its business licenses. The main reason being that the privilege tax has been applied inconsistently throughout the state. Privilege licenses are paid to towns and cities for the “privilege” of doing business in municipalities. Similar businesses in nearby towns often ended up paying very different business licenses for the same service because of how each city or town calculated its licenses.

Nevada regulators ordered daily fantasy sports sites like DraftKings and FanDuel to shut down Thursday, saying the hard-to-miss sites that have flooded the marketplace with TV and Internet ads cannot operate in the state without a gambling license.

The decision comes amid growing backlash by regulators and investigators after it was revealed employees often played on competing sites, raising questions about possible insider information being used to win.  No daily fantasy sports sites are licensed in Nevada, but the sites can apply for licenses. Nevada regulators govern the country’s main gambling hub in Las Vegas, and their actions could hold sway with regulators elsewhere.

“We would have to look at not having beer or liquor. I’m worried it’s going to cripple our business,” Jessica Frazey said of what would happen if the Supreme Court rules with previous courts that have said Pender sits within the Omaha Indian Reservation, thus giving the tribe authority to regulate the businesses and impose taxes.

Businesses in Pender that sell alcohol are awaiting the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on whether or not they are subject to an Omaha Tribe of Nebraska ordinance that would require them to buy a tribal liquor license and pay sales taxes to the tribe on top of what they already pay in state licensing fees and taxes.  The additional costs could put some owners out of business.

The owner of Pleasant Bay Ambulance service picked up a misdemeanor summons Friday and was released on his own recognizance after being charged with operating an ambulance service without a city permit.

Russellville, AL officials issued a misdemeanor summons for the owner’s arrest. The charge of operating without a business license is a Class A misdemeanor, which is punishable by up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine.

A Gonzales man was arrested Tuesday for operating a bar without a valid state alcohol permit, according to the state Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control.

The owner was booked into the Ascension Parish Jail on 210 counts of operating without a permit and his business was closed by ATC agents. The bar had been operating without a state alcohol permit since March 2015.

A changed liquor licensing ordinance went into effect Monday in Rochester Hills, MI allowing for more oversight into which restaurants, bars and taverns bring licenses into the city.

The amendment to the ordinance will provide more notice to local officials when a business applies for a license. The change will also require City Council approval of on-premises liquor licenses and license transfers, and add non-payment of taxes and other obligations as a factor in officials’ consideration of an application.

It’s time for business owners to renew their annual Cullman County licenses in Alabama.

Business licenses are due by Oct. 31 and will be delinquent Nov. 1, said Cullman County Probate Judge Tammy Brown. Reminder notices have been mailed out, and those who do not renew their business licenses by the deadline will face a penalty of 15 percent of the total license cost plus interest which is calculated daily.