Michael Bowles
204:12 - 204:47
"what my ordinance aims to do is remove a tax, which is the area-wide tax, area-wide property tax, and replace it with a sales tax. And at the same time, it puts guardrails and barriers in place that a future assembly cannot bring back an area-wide property tax."
“what my ordinance aims to do is remove a tax, which is the area-wide tax, area-wide property tax, and replace it with a sales tax. And at the same time, it puts guardrails and barriers in place that a future assembly cannot bring back an area-wide property tax.”
- Speaker
- Michael Bowles
- Timestamp
- 204:12 – 204:47
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Mat-Su Borough
- Captured at
- May 20, 2026
From the transcript
So what my ordinance aims to do is remove a tax, which is the area-wide tax, area-wide property tax, and replace it with a sales tax. And at the same time, it puts guardrails and barriers in place that a future assembly cannot bring back an area-wide property tax. And if they try, it immediately gets rid of the sales tax. So there are mechanisms in place to protect the members of the public from double taxation, triple taxation, quadruple taxation. So, um, I just want to make sure that's clear and on the record that your tax ordinance raises taxes and it doubles and it adds another tax.
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