City Council to discuss lawmakers’ sales tax vote
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland (in a Jan. 26 photo) has been pushing over several years for a share of the Tennessee sales tax increases from 2002 that excluded local governments. (Bill Dries/The Daily Memphian file)
If a tax-sharing bill pending in the Tennessee General Assembly is approved in Nashville and signed by Gov. Bill Lee, it could mean an additional $12 million in revenue to the city, Mayor Jim Strickland says.
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