Another top Arizona business leader is pushing for a big increase in state education tax

Jim Swanson, CEO, Kitchell Corporation

By Alia Beard Rau | The Republic

While Gov. Doug Ducey remains mum on his position on increasing the state’s education sales tax, the businessman he appointed to help overhaul the state’s school-funding formula now publicly is pushing for a hike.

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Jim Swanson, CEO of building company Kitchell Corporation and former chairman of Ducey’s Classrooms First Initiative Council, last week sent letters to a handful of fellow business leaders laying out his support for a proposal to nearly triple the Prop. 301 sales tax to 1.5 cents per dollar spent.

The current tax of 0.6 cents per dollar expires in 2021.

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