Tax code review delayed -- not taxes

When the D.C. Council debated the city’s fiscal year 2012 budget last spring, Chairman Kwame R. Brown put the kibosh on raising income taxes. He pledged before any such action a commission would be created to conduct an extensive review of the city’s tax code. The council approved legislation establishing that commission. But Mayor Vincent C. Gray hasn’t made any appointments — although he has proposed a new sales tax and the legislature eventually raised the tax rate on so-called high-income earners.