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Lacey council weighs repeal of social‑card prohibition and gradual gambling‑tax increases
Summary
City staff presented revenue options for social card games and pull tabs, noting Lacey’s 7.5% social‑card rate yields roughly $500,000 annually; council signaled support to pursue ordinance language to remove the local prohibition and asked staff to return with fiscal analyses and phased increase options.
City staff asked the Lacey City Council whether to change local rules on commercial gambling taxes — in particular social card games and punch-board/pull-tab activity — as part of a broader set of revenue-enhancement options.
Shannon, the assistant city manager, told the council that Lacey’s current social-card tax is 7.5% (state statutory maximum 20%) and estimated the city’s annual revenue at about $500,000 at that rate; she said staff’s table shows each half‑percent increase yields roughly $33,000. Shannon also noted that the city currently allows one grandfathered social‑card operation and that an option on the table is to…
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