In Haines, it will soon be impossible to escape sales tax, even online.
On Tuesday, Jan. 28, the Haines Borough Assembly introduced an ordinance that would adopt the Alaska remote sellers sales tax code. The code, created by the Alaska Remote Sellers Tax commission, applies Haines sales tax rates to online sellers (like Amazon and Netflix) who have met a least one of the following criteria in the past year: the seller’s gross sales for…