Will allowing Wyoming cities to tax themselves solve their looming funding woes?

Public officials at both the state and municipal levels were at an impasse this week on a bill that could significantly effect how Wyoming’s cities and towns levy their taxes.

At two separate committee meetings in Thermopolis and Buffalo this week, the state Legislature’s joint commissions on both Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions and Revenue turned over a bill to allow towns greater freedom and flexibility in how they tax their residents, independent of county governments. While the ethic of the bill — greater freedom for towns to create more tailored plans to raise revenues among them — was generally supported by lobbyists for both municipal- and county-level governments, advocates for local government expressed some serious misgivings about the bill itself, saying it does not actually address the revenue problems it was intended to solve.

Nick Reynolds [email protected]

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