Quarterly sales tax collections down
Sales tax collections submitted to the Haines Borough for the first quarter of 2019 are down 3.6 percent, or $17,000, from the same quarter last year.
Borough manager Debra Schnabel said the reasons for the dip are a poor heliskiing season, costing the borough about $8,000, and the borough assembly’s decision to no longer collect sales tax on long-term rentals, passed in September.
The borough collected $466,864 in sales tax…