Soaring rents in metro Phoenix and across the state have prompted a new proposal in the Legislature that would bar cities and towns from levying a tax on home and apartment rentals.
added as a last minute "strike everything" amendment
"If this bill were to pass, there are only two scenarios that a mayor and council would have to take," said Tom Savage, a lobbyist for the League of Arizona Cities and Towns, told the committee. "There really is no other option." But Bolick and other Republican backers of the legislation said cities are swimming in cash, in part because of a 2018 state law that required
Prescott falls right in the middle, with the city of about 45,000 people 100 miles north of Phoenix, collecting $2.6 million in rental taxes. Democrats on the panel pushed back on Bolick’s contention that cutting off city taxes will help keep people in their homes when they’re seeing monthly rent increases in the hundreds of dollars.
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