Anchorage grower owes $664,440 and stays on state's active list after denial affirmed

An Anchorage marijuana cultivator still shows up as active on the state's newest tax delinquency list, owing $664,440 in unpaid excise taxes months after the Marijuana Control Board voted to deny its license renewal.

Alaskasense, LLC, license 10237, has appeared on 17 of the Department of Revenue's last 18 monthly delinquency reports, absent only from the July 2025 active list. Its balance has risen overall while fluctuating between reports: $239,950 in March 2025, $402,125 that August, $633,009 in March 2026, $611,834 in April, and $664,440 in the report dated Aug. 28. The company's tax troubles are not new. A 2018 Department of Revenue notice already flagged AlaskaSense as delinquent, and another delinquency warning followed in 2020.

Under state law (AS 43.10.045), if a business operating on a state-issued license fails to pay a tax, "that person's license is suspended until all taxes, including interest and penalties, are paid in full," wrote Savannah Ritter, a tax auditor in the department's Tax Division, in the August letter.

The board denied Alaskasense's renewal application, and the Office of Administrative Hearings affirmed that decision. On June 25 the board adopted the hearings office's proposed decision by a 4-0 vote. Revenue counts a license as inactive only after the board notifies the department that it has suspended, revoked or declined to renew it. The reports don't say why this one is still listed as active. The filings carry no response from the company.

Two other growers recur on multiple monthly reports: Alaska Tasty Cannabis, LLC, which owes $74,442, and The Frost Frontier, $54,203. Alaskasense alone accounts for nearly half of the $1,391,900 owed by active-license holders. The August active list covers tax periods through June 30, 2026, and excludes accounts on approved payment plans and balances under $200.

Twelve active and 37 inactive cultivation facilities owed a combined $6,289,841 as of Aug. 27. The largest single balance, $1,082,007, belongs to inactive licensee Alaskan Blooms. Since the fiscal year began July 1, growers have paid $25.2 million of $26.3 million due, leaving $1,121,279, or 4.26% of current-fiscal-year tax due, unpaid.

The Marijuana Control Board meets Sept. 2 and 3 at the Robert B. Atwood Building in Anchorage, with 12 businesses queued for tax-delinquency consideration. Alaskasense is not among the 12. The next regular meeting follows Nov. 18 and 19.