KINGMAN – Final public hearing and vote to approve the proposed 0.5 percent sales tax for Kingman will be at the next City Council meeting on June 16.
If approved, the city has to present the official tax ordinance to the Arizona Department of Revenue by June 26. State regulations require a waiting period, so the sales tax increase would then go into effect September 1.
Mayor Ken Watkins stated that the proposed sales tax, would help with road repairs.
“We do five areas every year,” Mayor Watkins said in a phone interview, “and in three years, we’re going to run out of money.”
At the non-partisan forum he said it was for both Flying Fortress and for road repairs, but today, he said he had been corrected. The increase is strictly for road repairs.
If approved, that would raise Kingman’s sales tax rate from 2.5 percent to 3.0 percent. Total increase in sales tax would then be 8.6 percent (combining 5.6 percent state tax and 3.0 percent city tax).
