[Winona Online Democracy]
The City of Winona along with several other municipal government units does
have the authority and does levy a "sales tax" for lack of better words on
your NSP bill and your cable television service. These sales taxes, or
franchise fees collectively, I believe, generate close to a million dollars
per year which flows into the general fund. It cost little, if anything,
to administer, is implemented without a referendum and is discretionary tax
authority granted to cities by the state when and if a council desires to
levy the tax. Goodview, to the best of my knowledge, still does not levy
the NSP tax on it's taxpayers which save the citizens of Goodview about
$90,000 + per year.
Paul Double
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>Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 13:57:20 -0500
>Subject: [Winona] State funding of local governments
>From: "Bill Heitman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: winona online democracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>A radio news item a few days ago attributed an idea to Mayor Miller
>regarding Cities getting a portion of the sales tax collected returned to
>them for such uses. This reminded me of a conversation I had several years
>ago with another city official who claimed that cities used to get a portion
>of the collected sales tax returned to them. This was given to cities by the
>state in return for supporting the state when it either implemented or
>increased the sales tax levy, this money was later taken from the cities
>during the bad economic times of the early 80's so that the state could
>balance its budget. This forced cities to deal with less income to pay for
>the services that they provide. It would seem that if this is true now
>that the state has more money than it needs, then this would be time to give
>back to the cities what they were originally promised. Would any city or
>state officials care to comment on the validity of this statement?
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> Bill Heitman
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