LAKEPORT, Calif. – A new sales tax Lakeport voters approved in the fall will be implemented beginning in April.
On Nov. 8, Lakeport residents voted to enact Measure Z, a one-percent increase to the local sales and use tax.
Measure Z, which will go into the general fund, required a simple majority vote to pass. It received a 61.9-percent yes vote, with 38.1 percent of voters opposing it.
City officials said the new tax is slated to take effect April 1, at which time, the sales tax for taxable items purchased in the city of Lakeport will rise to 8.75 percent.
Currently, the sales tax in the city of Lakeport is 7.75 percent, which reflects a drop in the state sales and use tax rate of one quarter of one percent, effective Jan. 1.
Lakeport's Measure Z sales tax goes into effect in April
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