Incoming Springdale mayor: Legislature should look at Streamlined Sales Tax

Springdale is seeing its lowest sales tax collections since 2003, and incoming mayor Doug Sprouse blames the 2003 Streamlined Sales Tax Act for the sluggish revenue. The act includes a requirement that taxes on delivered goods be collected where the goods are delivered, not at the point of sale. That means that communities whose largest manufacturers and retailers ship goods out of the municipality will suffer. Seems to me that you'd want to attract manufacturers to create and export goods to reward your town and Arkansas, not to help other towns in other states. Here's more from the Morning News.