The Outagamie County Board is taking another look at a half-percent sales tax.
It could generate $20 million in revenue next year. The proposals call for using at least some of that to lower property taxes.
A study by the county shows the average household would pay an extra $109 a year in sales taxes. With the property tax reduction, and other impacts, households would actually save between $58 and $113 a year.
The county estimates about 25 percent of the sales tax revenue would come from people living outside Outagamie County.
The county’s finance committee could take up the issue later this month.
Outagamie and Winnebago counties are two of the six in the state that don’t have their own half-cent sales tax.
