Matt Kissinger
43:02 - 43:33
"We had them come in and compare it with every other jurisdiction, especially around the U.S., Canada, but also some overseas jurisdictions. And what they found was that our property tax in Alaska, the way it's structured, assured would result in property taxes a whole order of magnitude, so kind of 10 times higher than the next highest."
“We had them come in and compare it with every other jurisdiction, especially around the U.S., Canada, but also some overseas jurisdictions. And what they found was that our property tax in Alaska, the way it's structured, assured would result in property taxes a whole order of magnitude, so kind of 10 times higher than the next highest.”
- Speaker
- Matt Kissinger
- Timestamp
- 43:02 – 43:33
- Source
- HFIN-260527-1330
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- May 27, 2026
From the transcript
Your property taxes are much higher than we see everywhere else." So again, we worked with Gas Strategies. Can you go on to the next slide? Again, we worked with Gas Strategies. We had them come in and compare it with every other jurisdiction, especially around the U.S., Canada, but also some overseas jurisdictions. And what they found was that our property tax in Alaska, the way it's structured, assured would result in property taxes a whole order of magnitude, so kind of 10 times higher than the next highest.
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