Officials Seek to Settle Dispute Over Sales Taxes
The city said Thursday that it will abandon plans to stop paying its share of county sales tax if it can get the money back in services, resources or property.
County officials quickly embraced the idea. The move forestalls a threat that other cities in the county might join in a tax revolt.
Ventura Mayor Sandy Smith will talk with county officials next week about ways to be reimbursed for the $572,000 Ventura will pay in county sales tax this year.
Last month the Ventura City Council voted to stop paying part of its sales taxes revenues to the county. The move broke a 1956 agreement in which cities pay $3.30 of every $1,000 in sales tax to the county in return for services.
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