“this bill carves out the property tax for gas treatment plant and LNG plant, and we assume that those would pay the current law property tax. And then the alternative volumetric tax for the pipeline is shared between the state and several municipalities.”
- Speaker
- Dan Stickel
- Timestamp
- 106:04 – 106:30
- Transcript
- House Finance, 5/21/26, 1:30pm
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- Alaska News
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From the transcript
And again, the reason for that is that this bill carves out the property tax for gas treatment plant and LNG plant, and we assume that those would pay the current law property tax. And then the alternative volumetric tax for the pipeline is shared between the state and several municipalities.
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