City wants to boost sales tax for streets

Grand Coulee is completing an application to form its own Transportation Benefit District, which would bring in more revenue in the form of sales taxes.

The TBD can use one of two forms for collection of special fees. Grand Coulee has decided to raise its Washington State Sales Tax locally, for non-food items, by two tenths of one percent, rather than collect fees from renewal of license tabs.

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