Q&A: Sales-tax collection in Pinal County
by Richard H Dyer | Apache Junction & Gold Canyon Independent
The sales taxes we pay for goods and services in Apache Junction and Gold Canyon are to go up in April. Voters in November overwhelmingly approved two propositions including a half-cent sales tax increase.
Approved were Proposition 416, which will create a network of new roads and freeways throughout Pinal County; and Proposition 417, which funds these projects through a half-cent increase in the sales tax.
Proposition 416 was approved with 26,399 yes votes (56.96 percent of the ballots cast). The no votes totaled 19,944 (43.04 percent). Proposition 417 received 23,635 yes votes (50.97 percent) and 22,734 no votes (49.03 percent), according to final numbers approved by the Pinal County Board of Supervisors.
