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Kat Sorensen

19:58 - 20:27

“Q1 and Q4 consistently bring about $20 million, while Q2 and Q3 bring in exponentially more, and that's in our peak season there.”
Community
Alaska News
Location
Seward
Captured at
October 26, 2026

From the transcript

And so we would bring in a companion ordinance to mirror that so that we're not adding that 2% charge onto the small local businesses of Seward. And then this is kind of a— this is a chart that shows why we went in this direction, because you'll see that very, very often every year, we see a very predictable chart of our sales tax history. And so Q1 and Q4 consistently bring about $20 million, while Q2 and Q3 bring in exponentially more, and that's in our peak season there. We haven't received final Q3 numbers yet, but I'm excited to see that and anticipate them being similar if not higher. If the, if the proposal goes through, we'll see the revenue jump from $8.7 at 4% to 10.9%.