The Bethel City Council has created an amnesty program for some local businesses which haven't been paying sales taxes, after a crackdown by a new city finance director who estimates the city has received only 20% of collected tax funds.
Bethel’s new City Council has voted 4-3 to create an amnesty program for certain business owners who owe the city unpaid sales taxes. The program will only apply to penalties and interest on unpaid sales taxes.
Council member Mary “Beth” Hessler authored the proposal. She’s one of the business owners who found out recently that she owed sales taxes to the city on a duplex she owns. She rents part of it out. He estimates that the city could be leaving millions of dollars in just unpaid sales tax revenue on the table, not including those fees. Wright said that he thinks, optimistically, only about 20% of local business owners have been paying sales taxes to the city. Wright said that he’s been having trouble getting businesses owners to respond in his push to collect that revenue.
“Any of these people that have been stonewalling the department, that have been failing to reply, they should not be capable of getting any amnesty,” Batchelor Jr. said. “Because they were effectively saying ‘we’re gonna wait until something changes.’”
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