0:24
Tom Tugas
46:46 - 47:11
“The sales tax in 2025, if you look on page 68 of the budget, came in at $2.2 million more than was in the budget. And our point 2 years ago that they were under-budgeting sales tax. And if they had simply increased to a more realistic tax, there wasn't any need to raise the taxes.”
- Speaker
- Tom Tugas
- Timestamp
- 46:46 – 47:11
- Transcript
- Seward: City Council Meeting 11/9/2026
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Seward
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From the transcript
If building permits are up $228,000, that means there's there's going to be additional property tax in the future. What in fact happened, and this was the whole issue, was the question of need. The sales tax in 2025, if you look on page 68 of the budget, came in at $2.2 million more than was in the budget. And our point 2 years ago that they were under-budgeting sales tax. And if they had simply increased to a more realistic tax, there wasn't any need to raise the taxes.
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