Taxpayers won't get refunds from nearly 30 million dollars in road maintenance and telecom fees the State Supreme Court ruled Greenville County collected illegally. That's because the Greenville County Council can't agree on how to give it back.
The Court ruled in favor of a 2017 lawsuit backed by three council members arguing that the road fees amounted to a tax in disguise. But the council is deadlocked on how or whether to refund ten years' worth of fees already collected. Some want to go ahead and spend the 30-million on much-needed road improvements, others say it was wrongly collected doing anything other than giving it back would be just as wrong. And still others warn that making the refunds from the 55-millon dollar reserve fund would threaten the county's triple-A credit rating.
