MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WTAQ) - There’s another sign that Wisconsinites are holding onto their money, even more so than during last year’s recession.
The special sales tax that’s paying for Milwaukee’s baseball stadium brought in almost 5 percent less than a year ago in August. The Miller Park Stadium District collected almost $1.9 million in sales taxes last month. Those taxes were actually paid in June by folks in Milwaukee, Racine, Waukesha, Ozaukee, and Washington counties.
So far this year, over $15 million have been collected from the special 0.1 percent sales tax. That’s $810,000 less than what the Stadium Board had predicted.
The tax will disappear when the ballpark’s financial obligations are complete. That’s now expected between 2016 and 2018. An earlier projection had the tax being dropped in 2014 – but that was before the economy went south.
