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Kat Sorensen
17:03 - 17:29
“Together, tourism-related taxes and seasonal sales tax drew 62% of respondents. Residents really favor revenue from visitors”
- Speaker
- Kat Sorensen
- Timestamp
- 17:03 – 17:29
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Seward
- Captured at
- October 26, 2026
From the transcript
We then asked, which revenue option would you be most likely to support? Together, tourism-related taxes and seasonal sales tax drew 62% of respondents. Residents really favor revenue from visitors, and those— that's the top two there, higher tourism and seasonal sales tax. Why did we choose a seasonal sales tax? One, it spreads the impact, distributes the cost across seasonal tourism industries as a whole rather than a focused bed tax.