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Section 20-53. Financial, real estate and professional <br /> services. <br /> <br /> Every person engaged in financial, real estate or <br />professional services shall pay a business license tax of <br />Fifty Dollars ($50.00) on the first Five Thousand Dollars <br />($5,000.00) of gross receipts and sixty three cents ($0.63) <br />each additional One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) of gross <br />receipts. <br /> <br />on <br /> <br /> Financial services shall be defined as any person <br />rendering a service for compensation in the form of a credit <br />agency, an investment company, a broker or dealer in <br />securities and commodities or a security or commodity exchange <br />unless such service is specifically provided for in another <br />section of this article. Those engaged in rendering financial <br />services include, but are not limited to, the following: <br /> <br />buying installment receivables; <br />chattel mortgage financing; <br />consumer financing; <br />credit card services; <br />credit unions; <br />factors; <br />financing accounts receivable; <br />industrial loan companies; <br />installment financing; <br />inventory financIng; <br />loan or mortgage brokers; <br />loan or mortgage companies; <br />safety deposit box companies; <br />security and commodity brokers and services; <br />stock brokers; <br />working capital financing. <br /> <br /> Real estate service shall be defined as any person <br />rendering a service for compensation as lessor, buyer, seller, <br />agent or broker, unless the service is specifically provided <br />for in another section of this article. Those rendering real <br />estate services include, but are not limited to, the <br />following: <br /> <br />appraisers of real estate; <br />escrow agents, real estate; <br />fiduciaries, real estate; <br />real estate agents, brokers and <br />real estate selling agents; <br />rental agents for real estate. <br /> <br />managers; <br /> <br /> Professional services shall be defined as any person <br />engaged in providing a professional service if engaged in <br />rendering any service specifically enumerated below or engaged <br />in any occupation or vocation whose professional knowledge of <br />some department of science or learning, gained by a prolonged <br /> <br /> <br />