A springtime bump apparently from skiing and the Freeride World Tour helped push sales tax revenues to a five-year high in 2015.
Haines Borough figures show sales tax revenues reached $2.95 million, a 2.3 percent increase over 2014 that came despite a 1.1 percent drop in tax income from retail, the single largest category of sales that accounted for $1.33 million of total tax revenues.
“Considering retail was down, you might have expected us to…
