Anchorage may get a 4% sales tax

Alaska’s largest city could see a sales tax.
Anchorage Assembly member Bill Evans is readying a measure that could bring a 4 percent tax on goods and services.
“People have been pretty upset about the rising property taxes. There’s a limit to what I think you can bear in property taxes in a municipality this size,” Evans said by phone Tuesday. “So diversifying the revenue stream, I think, makes a lot of sense, and takes in some people that currently aren’t pay