Salem mayor proposes income tax changes


SALEM

Mayor Jerry Wolford made a proposal Tuesday to ease the city’s financial woes, but city council didn’t respond.

Wolford suggested that the city end income-tax reciprocity with other communities.

Reciprocity means that Salem — and many other communities — does not collect income tax on workers who pay income tax in another community, or from people who work in Salem but live and pay income taxes elsewhere.

Salem has a 1 percent income tax.

Other communities, Wolford said, give a 20 percent tax credit to people who must pay in two locations.

Wolford said that eliminating the city’s ordinances on those two issues would generate $378,600 a year.

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