The Haines Borough‘s loss of pandemic related sales tax revenues this summer has been offset by the near doubling of taxes collected from online retailers such as Amazon, REI, Target and other remote sellers.
Sales tax revenues are down 30% between January through October 2020 compared to 2019, a loss of about $923,000.
The remote sellers tax, which in 2020 included 188 remote businesses that now remit sales taxes to the borough, yielded nearly…
