In the last calendar year, the Haines Borough pulled in just over $470,000 in sales tax from purchases made online, by phone, or mail delivered to households and businesses. 

That’s up about 17% percent from the previous year and significantly more than the $6,957 the borough pulled in from remote and online sales taxes in 2018 when a U.S. Supreme Court decision on online sales tax collection launched a 2020 statewide initiative known as the…

Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the...