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Hotel-motel tax sets fiscal-year record; North Platte sales tax streak rolls on
Lincoln County’s 4% lodging tax wrapped up another fiscal-year record in April, while North Platte’s 2% sales tax extended its current streak of setting monthly records to 14 months. The hotel-motel tax netted $94,903 for the month, finishing the state’s 2023-24 fiscal year with an all-time high of...
Higher property taxes? Maybe — but long ‘budget season’ lies ahead
Nebraska’s county assessors hear the complaints every June: “You just socked me with higher property taxes by raising my valuation.”. But that’s not the end of each year’s annual property tax story. It’s just the beginning. Taxable values for 2024 indeed went up as June...
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