Court denies injunction to stop Pinal road tax collection
by Jake Kincaid | Casa Grande Dispatch
Pinal County will be able to collect Proposition 417 taxes for new transportation projects starting in April, despite ongoing litigation.
On Friday, Judge Christopher T. Whitten of Maricopa County Superior Court denied the plaintiff, Harold Vangilder, in litigation filed by the Goldwater Institute, an injunction that would prevent the collection of the tax.
The Arizona Department of Revenue argued that the injunction would cause harm because in two years if the tax is found to be lawful, every taxpayer in Pinal County would then owe money to the county.
