When the D.C. Council’s Committee on Finance and Revenue continues Thursday its examination into why Chief Financial Officer Natwar Gandhi stopped enforcing a 2000 law, some folks will cast the remedy sought by Mayor Vincent C. Gray as a new tax. But his request would simply return to the original directive. “It’s not a new tax. It’s a new law that clarifies what the council intended when it passed the one in 2000,” said Attorney General Irvin B. Nathan.

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