Finance committee grapples with sales tax exemptions

A committee recommends that Haines explore the idea of having the Haines Borough administration – not the assembly – decide whether nonprofit groups should get local sales tax exemptions.

The concept is to review and nail down criteria for exemptions, and then let borough administration officials make those decisions. Disputed decisions could be appealed to the assembly. The assembly’s finance committee recommended that move 3-0 on Sept. 29.

The committee also flirted with the idea…