Home Rule Charter is on its way to Coleharbor
The January City Council meeting of Coleharbor was called to order Jan. 21 by Mayor Chris Holt, where the first reading of the Home Rule Charter ordinance was introduced.
City Attorney Mark Keffern discussed with the council the steps required to implement the tax.
After the second reading is approved, the ordinance will be published on the ND State Website for an additional 60 days before the tax can be implemented.
“We’ve talked about the 1.5 percent sales tax so I’m assuming you’d like to go forward with that,” Keffern said. “But then what about the use tax, the farm machinery tax and alcoholic beverage tax.”
Holt opened the discussion.
“My opinion is we only have two farmers in town,” he said while addressing the farm machinery tax. “We don’t need to have that. My suggestion would be to keep alcohol sales tax at 1.5 percent.”
Sale tax, use tax and gross receipt of alcohol beverages will be set at 1.5 percent. This includes online sales.
Keffern said Coleharbor won’t start receiving the tax revenue until the third quarter.