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Warren County committee advances home-rule request to seek 8% sales tax option
Summary
A Warren County committee voted to forward a home-rule request to the full board asking the state legislature for authority to raise the county sales tax from 7% to as much as 8%; presenters estimated the extra 1% could equal roughly $25 million in gross receipts and about $12 million staying with the county under current distribution formulas.
Warren County — A county committee voted to send a home-rule request to the full board asking state lawmakers to permit Warren County to raise its local sales tax above the 7% cap, potentially to 8.
Unidentified Presenter (speaker 3), outlining the financial case, said the county’s current combined sales tax is 7 percent — 4 percent to the state and 3 percent local — and that a one-point increase ‘‘represents about $25,000,000, according to estimates’’ and that, under current distribution, ‘‘the county is gonna keep 12,000,000’’ of that additional revenue. He cited rising costs for EMS, culvert replacements, road work and other mandates as drivers of the request and said the county…
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