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Spokane resident urges county to adopt 0.1% sales-tax option to fund low-income housing
Summary
During the June 3 open public forum, Becky Duckerhoof urged Spokane County commissioners to enact a local sales-and-use tax (commonly called the 0.1% or "15/90" tax) under state statute to fund affordable housing construction and services, and cited regional housing-shortage data and inflationary pressures.
Becky Duckerhoof of Spokane addressed the Spokane County Board of Commissioners on June 3 urging enactment of a local sales-and-use tax option described in testimony as the "15/90 tax" and tied to state law RCW 82.14.530. "This ordinance ... allows the county legislative authority to impose a sales and use tax not to exceed one-tenth of one percent," Duckerhoof said, and she described the spending requirement she attributed to the statute: at…
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