KEWAUNEE COUNTY, WI (WTAQ) — Kewaunee County’s half-percent sales tax was renewed for another five years during a county board meeting this week.
The sales tax was put into place in 2016 to make up for the loss in utility tax revenue from the closure of the Kewaunee County Nuclear Station.
“We were receiving roughly three quarters of a million dollars a year in utility tax,” said County Administrator Scott Feldt. “But with the decommissioning we would no longer be receiving utility tax.”
Feldt says he anticipates that the increase will be in place indefinitely.
“It’s a revenue source that the county uses to be able to fund a variety of different things,” said Feldt. “Especially from things that deal with debt and the like.”
Feldt says they’ll re-examine the tax in five years. it has a sunset date in December of 2026.
