The DeKalb County Board of Commissioners recently OK’d an excise tax on the energy used in manufacturing.
The move will make up money lost from a new state law that gradually eliminates sales taxes on the energy used by manufacturers. The excise tax, which starts at .25 percent this year, will grow to 1 percent by 2016, to recover those lost dollars.
The revenue collected will be divided between the county and its 10 cities, though not Atlanta. The cities’ share is expected to be between half and three-quarters of the money collected.
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