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County officials tell committee lost state transfers and limited taxes force heavier property-tax burdens
Summary
Jay Hall told a legislative committee counties rely heavily on property taxes after the state consolidated former local revenue sources; he urged options including restoring certain use taxes, raising motor-vehicle shares and allowing local earning- or sales-tax options to diversify local revenues.
Jay Hall, speaking for the counties association, told a legislative committee that counties depend “almost entirely on property tax” and have seen predecessor local revenue streams shrink or disappear, shifting more costs onto property owners.
Hall said state actions beginning in the late 1970s — when cigarette and liquor taxes were centralized at the state level — produced replacement formulas such as LAVTR and CCRS that once redistributed money back to cities and counties. “When those funds stopped being…
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