Pinal RTA appeals tax collection defeat
by Jim Headley | Arizona City Independent
Pinal Regional Transportation Authority (RTA)
The Pinal Regional Transportation Authority believes it was given the authority to collect a variable rate retail excise tax when voters approved Proposition 417 in 2017.
The Goldwater Institute and even the Arizona Department of Revenue disagree.
Wednesday, lawyers from the PRTA, the Goldwater Institute and the Department of Revenue squared off before the Arizona Court of Appeals Division 1 in Phoenix. The RTA lost an earlier hearing in Maricopa County court in November 2018.
