The Cobb County Board of Commissioners voted 5-0 Tuesday to add a regulatory fee for alcohol catering licenses in 32 categories but remove county regulatory fees for taxi companies and food trucks.
The new alcohol fees will offset costs associated with processing and investigating these regulated businesses and associated licenses and permits and will be separate from occupation taxes, according to a Sept. 22 memo from Dana Johnson, director of the county’s Community Development Agency.
Those additional flat regulatory fees vary from $50 for each event for the alcohol catering permit to a $10,000 bond for a liquor wholesaler based outside of Cobb.
Most flat fees are $5,000 in three categories, $3,300 in three categories, $600 in eight categories and $500 in four categories.
However, the regulatory fees of $75 to $200 for taxi companies and $200 for mobile food units/food trucks will be eliminated because the food trucks are regulated only by the Department of Public Health and the taxi companies by the Georgia Department of Public Safety.
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