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KETCHIKAN'S TAXES
By
Bill Rotecki
September 28, 2018
Friday PM
There have recently been comparisons of Ketchikan taxes to others. To do this properly one must start by recognizing that Sitka, Wrangell, Petersburg and Juneau, all have combined city and boroughs. Ketchikan does not. To make a comparison one must do the calculation in the same way for each community. Otherwise the data can easily be misconstrued or misinterpreted.
In order to compare apples to apples, we must first combine our City and Borough taxes, and then divide that number by the population of the borough.
If you do the math the resulting number is $2575 paid by Ketchikan residents, and $3093 per capita for Juneau. Juneau residents pay $500 more than Ketchikan residents!!
When someone implies that Ketchikan pays the highest taxes in Southeast Alaska please examine the details. On a per capita basis we clearly do not.
Source: Alaska Department of Commerce Alaska taxable 2017
Bill Rotecki
Ketchikan, Alaska
About: Bill Rotecki is a past Ketchikan borough assembly member
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Received September 27, 2018
- Published September 28, 2018
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