Visitors chip in with locals on Carson City tax load

Carson City’s most recent city sales tax hike in the first year raised more than $1.1 million, with about $800,000 of it from residents’ pockets.That’s based on the reported take of $1,113,530 from the tax boost’s inception on Oct. 1, 2014, to the end of September this year, plus application by the Nevada Appeal of an estimated 30 percent from visitors in the city making purchases. The Appeal used an estimate lower than the percentage tourism officials used. Joel Dunn, d