Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Tribune Reports Brownstown Officials Reject Wheel Tax

From the Seymour Tribune:

Jackson County residents will not likely have to worry about paying a wheel tax any time soon.

Brownstown Town Council rejected the idea.

“I don’t see any benefit to it,” Brownstown Councilman Ben Lewis said of the opportunity during a council meeting recently at Town Hall.

Council President John Nolting brought up the issue because a recent change in state law allows municipalities an opportunity to implement the tax if they represent more than 50 percent of the people in a county.