$143,000 in unpaid sales tax to the state. P.G. is supposed to get 27% of that back ($38,610). But if the state does not get paid, the city loses out too. I want my sidewalk back
Is that any way for an Economic Development Commissioner to act?
Wild Fish’s Unpaid Taxes Hurting The City
Substainable – until it’s time to pay the bills then there’s no sustenance. Why is the place still open?
Edible Monterey Bay ran an ad in its glossy magazine for Liz Jacobs of Wild Fish, the restaurant that dodged taxes and business license fees. The story is the same, Jacobs has not paid the magazine and it’s gone to small claims court.
Court date is August 29, 2024 in Marina.
Wild Fish Wild Fish Sued For $4,450.00. Innkeeper Defrauds Magazine
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Liz Jacobs, owner of Wild Fish on Lighthouse Avenue, leads the city-sanctioned downtown Business Improvement District board, or BID, which holds marketing events to draw more people to P.G. But Jacobs, the chair of the board, has not remitted business license tax for the restaurant at 545 Lighthouse for two fiscal years — even though the group she heads pays for its programs with the same tax dollars.
OK, delinquent taxes, no business license. How are they on health department inspections or payroll deductions? Place is starting to resemble a grease fire of infractions.
Oh. Wild Fish Has No Business License In Addition To Unpaid Taxes
Parklet gadfly also got $533,000 in Covid relief government handouts. Is that Excellence in tax cheating or what?
According to the recorder’s office in Salinas, Flying Kipper Corp. faces three liens from the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration for unpaid sales taxes from Oct. l, 2022, to Dec. 31, 2023, amounting to $116,987.66 including a $25,209.86 lien that was filed with the recorder’s office Tuesday — and a lien from the Monterey County Tax Collector for $9,765.12. In all, the restaurant’s unpaid taxes amount to $126,752.78. A lien is a legal claim to property that prevents the owner from selling it without first settling the debt.
The ugly parklet blocks the view of the block. No P.G. charm here, just an expensive restaurant hiding from the tax man.
Two with sidewalk cages that were bakeries long ago. One was the Fighting Favaloros which closed again for reasons unknown. Perhaps more of that family time they talk about. Other was Mauricios. Last one is the first ‘pub’ allowed in P.G. Grab a fork and go.
Among three new restaurant establishments opening on downtown’s main thoroughfare in mid-April is The Monarch Pub & Restaurant, the first pub ever in the state’s last dry town. The new establishment, which will be located at 617 Lighthouse Ave. where the 17th Street Grille used to reside, will join fine dining restaurants Wild Fish and Poppy Hall. The former, which will feature locally-caught fish and seafood and farm-to-table cuisine will be located at 545 Lighthouse Ave., the old location of Favaloro’s Big Night Bistro while the latter will take the spot where longtime eatery Mauricio’s was at 589 Lighthouse Ave.
Price spotting – Monarch pub looks best if one is real hungry.