Council Repeals $10 Daily Tax on Psychics

The City Council has repealed a century-old ordinance taxing psychics and fortune tellers $10 a day, thanks to an entrepreneur who’s predicting success for a warehouse selling sundry metaphysical accouterments.

Zera Starchild, co-owner of Doorway Publications and 10th Street Gifts, a wholesale metaphysical warehouse, had hoped to begin reading cards that some believe can predict the future.

But first, she decided to check city regulations and discovered a 1906 law levying the daily fee, which, over a year, could have amounted to as much as $3,650, far more than any other business in the city.

The council voted to repeal it Monday.