MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WTAQ) - Consumer spending is up, but not everywhere – and that’s reflected in the latest sales tax collection figures from the Milwaukee baseball stadium district. It received $1.8 million in tax collections this month, which reflects the sales taxes that people spent in January in 5 Metro Milwaukee counties. The total was 7.5 percent less than a year ago. And it’s about a quarter-million less than what the district had expected for the month.
Stadium board director Mike Duckett says the March collection was the 3rd-lowest for the month since the tax started being collected in the mid-1990’s. The sales tax for Miller Park is 0.1 percent. It’s collected in Milwaukee, Waukesha, Racine, Ozaukee, and Washington counties. Last year’s stadium tax receipts were down almost 9.5 percent from the year before. As a result, it will take longer to pay off the bonds for Miller Park. And the sales tax is not expected to end until 2016 or ’18, instead of the previous estimate of 2014.
