I can pretty much guarantee the city will find a way to screw this up, one way or another. There is a pile of money behind the monopolies called medallions. Those owners expect their monopoly enforced, or why bother? Clearly going into debt to buy a newish card to get better Uber rates is a better economic decision than going into debt to buy a medallion which doesn&#x27;t directly do jack squat for you. So the city in turn will want its cut somehow: it&#x27;ll be a tax, or a fee, or both, probably multiple fees.<p>A while ago the city found income taxes weren&#x27;t enough, and the state and feds didn&#x27;t give them enough, so there&#x27;s a separate NYC income tax. And then that wasn&#x27;t enough so if you&#x27;re a small business there&#x27;s a separate unincorporated business tax. It&#x27;s not enough to just add a new line or worksheet to compute this tax, it&#x27;s a whole separate form, a whole separate set of duplicative questions, a separate mailing address, a separate check. And then that wasn&#x27;t enough so they created the MCTMT income tax, which again is a separate form, separate mailing address, and its own check.<p>The tax amount isn&#x27;t as costly as the additional bureaucracy generated at both ends of the equation. Raise the rate? Nah. Add a new line for computation? Nah. They want completely separate offices, forms, addresses, and their own check.<p>Oh and each one of those wants separate estimated income tax payments made 4x per year. It&#x27;s just insane.