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Coffee County committee votes to adopt higher severance tax rate allowed by state law
5058272 · June 18, 2025
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Summary
Committee members approved a resolution authorizing the county to raise the severance tax on minerals to 20 cents per ton and asked the county attorney to draft the formal resolution for commission action.
Coffee County's Budget and Finance Committee approved placing a severance-tax increase on the county agenda after the state legislature gave counties the option to raise the tax on extracted minerals.
Commissioners discussed a newly enacted state law (Public Chapter 285, House Bill 695) that…
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