Taxed, but not asked

Outside city electric customers express anger at Cheney council for changing billing practices

The Cheney City Council received feedback at its March 7 meeting on changes it made to how electrical rates are billed — and it wasn’t positive.

Several citizens living outside the city limits showed up and expressed anger at Cheney’s decision to change the way taxes are imposed on their electrical bills. In two separate ordinances, adopted Dec. 8, 2015 and Jan. 12 of this year, the council changed the structure so that taxes are imposed on the utility itself and therefore on the utility’s entire service area.

The Dec. 8 ordinance clarified that citizen-imposed taxes are on the utility’s gross...

 

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