Inside Politics: Fayetteville wants slice of restaurant tax
The Cumberland County government has collected many millions of dollars from a special 1 percent sales tax on restaurant food since it took effect on Jan. 1, 1994.The tax was created to pay for the construction and debt on the Crown Coliseum at the Crown Complex. Now some Fayetteville City Council members want a cut of that money for the city government.“The current model is not acceptable,” Mayor Mitch Colvin said last week. City and county officials have […]
