Changes to how sales tax revenue is divvied up will take effect in July
A new law will allow the State of Tennessee to distribute sales tax revenue to local governments based on annual population estimates. (Mark Humphrey/AP file)
The new formula and its links to the city’s quest to create 10,000 new and renovated units of housing by 2030 is among the topics discussed on “Behind The Headlines.”
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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