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  • The local-option income tax is at the state-mandated limit; raising property taxes, requiring a unanimous council vote, is politically impossible.

    Madison in Montgomery? 2011

  • The local-option income tax is at the state-mandated limit; raising property taxes, requiring a unanimous council vote, is politically impossible.

    Madison in Montgomery? 2011

  • The local-option income tax is at the state-mandated limit; raising property taxes, requiring a unanimous council vote, is politically impossible.

    Madison in Montgomery? 2011

  • “Under the old local-option plan a community decided whether or not it would have liquor,” Samuel Hopkins Adams wrote in 1921.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • “Under the old local-option plan a community decided whether or not it would have liquor,” Samuel Hopkins Adams wrote in 1921.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • Additional property tax relief will come through the revenue sharing provisions which send one-eighth of the sales tax collections back to every city and county that doesn't already have a local-option sales tax.

    Here's hoping David 2007

  • There is no local-option sales tax, no local-option income tax.

    Who Pays America's Highest Property Taxes? 2009

  • It would also streamline and consolidate the process for involuntary treatment; expand alcohol and drug treatment services; require the state to create and use a consistent screening process for mental illness and chemical dependency; and it allows counties to levy a local-option sales tax to pay for expanding treatment.

    Archive 2005-02-20 2005

  • Towns which were wet, when faced with a countrywide local-option decision to outlaw liquor, demanded town or township local option to reinstate it.

    Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967

  • Towns which were wet, when faced with a countrywide local-option decision to outlaw liquor, demanded town or township local option to reinstate it.

    Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967

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