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Lake County board directs staff to prepare one-year extension of cannabis tax reductions
Summary
After public comment and debate, the Lake County Board of Supervisors directed staff to return with a resolution extending 2026 cannabis tax reductions — keeping a 50% rate cut, a canopy-based base and suspending CPI increases — for one year while a revised ordinance is drafted.
Lake County supervisors on Tuesday directed staff to prepare a resolution to extend temporary reductions to the county's cannabis cultivation and business taxes for one year, preserving a 50% rate cut, using canopy as the tax base and suspending automatic CPI increases while officials review long-term options.
Treasurer and tax collector Patrick Sullivan told the board his office had received "many inquiries about this matter over the last few months" and warned the temporary reductions will lapse at the end of the year unless the board acts, returning the tax to its original cultivation-area basis and resuming annual CPI adjustments. "We would go back to cultivation area instead of canopy, and we would go, and impose a CPI increase each year," Sullivan said.
The board heard more than an hour of public comment from growers,…
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