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Jon Halsey: KY cities, counties can't impose local sales taxes

Jon Halsey writes:
Ed, You are correct. Kentucky has a single Statewide Sales Tax of 6%. Local counties and cities are NOT allowed to collect local Sales Taxes. Here is the pertinent link: 2013 Tax-Rates.org

This month the Legislature began discussion of allowing a "single use local Sales Tax" which would have to be approved by the Legislature, would be for a specific project and would expire when that project was complete. The story is in the Lexington Herald-Leader today under their kentucky.com website.

It was interesting to me that Kentucky exempted Alcohol and Liquor from the Sales Tax until April 2009 which was coincidently around the time that Dry's started agitating for change.

Knifley --Jon Halsey
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