0:32
Speaker B
9:30 - 10:02
"It's too soon to forecast out what the removal of the senior citizen exemption is doing to sales. However, I did do a slide for the first 2 months, January and February."
“It's too soon to forecast out what the removal of the senior citizen exemption is doing to sales. However, I did do a slide for the first 2 months, January and February.”
- Speaker
- Speaker B
- Timestamp
- 9:30 – 10:02
- Source
- Assembly Meeting
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- April 30, 2026
From the transcript
So property tax, we're at the cap of 10 mills for operations this year, and then, as you can see, the sales tax is flattening out. It's too soon to forecast out what the removal of the senior citizen exemption is doing to sales. However, I did do a slide for the first 2 months, January and February. I'm unable to do March right now because businesses have until the end of April to file for March, and a lot of them like to wait till the very last day, which is tomorrow. So I didn't include that for March.
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