Adoption of enumerated reports as comparison.

Pursuant to § 47-817 , the Council of the District of Columbia (“Council”) adopts the following reports as the Council’s comparison of tax rates and burdens applicable to residential and nonresidential real property in the District of Columbia (“District”) with the rates on property in jurisdictions in the vicinity of the District and as the Council’s comparison of other major taxes:

(1) “Tax Rates and Tax Burdens in the District of Columbia: A Nationwide Comparison” (Government of the District of Columbia, June 1997); and

(2) “A Comparison of Tax Rates and Burdens in the Washington Metropolitan Area” (Government of the District of Columbia, June 1997).