The Haines Borough Assembly last week postponed taking action on an ordinance aimed at reducing expenses for long-term housing renters.
This spring, assembly member Sean Maidy proposed exempting sales tax from long-term residential rentals. The borough’s sales tax rate is 5.5 percent. A person or family paying $1,000 a month on rent pays an additional $55 in sales tax, if a landlord adds the cost to a tenants rent.
The assembly addressed the proposal at…
