Michael Bowles
203:10 - 204:11
“what your ordinance does is it masks tax, the raising of our taxes with a $75,000 tax exemption, and knowing that a future assembly can come in here and raise the levy to 10, knowing that a future assembly can always remove that 10 mill rate cap and raise it to God knows what in the future.”
- Speaker
- Michael Bowles
- Timestamp
- 203:10 – 204:11
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Mat-Su Borough
- Captured at
From the transcript
So what, what your ordinance does is it masks tax, the raising of our taxes with a $75,000 tax exemption, and knowing that a future assembly can come in here and raise the levy to 10, knowing that a future assembly can always remove that 10 mill rate cap and raise it to God knows what in the future. So, um, to say that this is an attempt to come up with a solution based off off of my request for comments from the public on how to lower taxes, I think is disingenuous. I think it's inaccurate, and I think that it's an attempt to try to get my ballot covered up— or excuse me, my ballot measure covered up on the November election ballot. There is high amount of appetite to remove the area-wide property taxes and bring in a sales tax. If I had it my way, we wouldn't bring in a sales tax, but that's just not— that's, that's just not realistic.
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