County Board Approves Sales Tax Extension
By BILL BELLEN
OTSEGO COUNTY
At 8:45 a.m. on Thursday, August 21, the Otsego County Board of Representatives was called to a special meeting by Chairman Edwin Frazier Jr. With representatives receiving notice of the meeting on August 13, the board gathered that morning to approve an extension to the additional local 1 percent sales and use tax in the county.
Otsego County currently maintains a sales and use rate tax of 8 percent—4 percent being state tax and the other 4 percent being local. The additional 1 percent in this resolution is not being added onto existing taxes, but rather is an extension of those already in effect. The base local tax rate for Otsego County is 3 percent, though the county has had an additional 1 percent renewed for years.
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