(a) A municipality may levy and collect taxes on taxable property taxable under AS 43.56 only by using one of the methods set out in (b) or (c) of this section.
(b) A municipality may levy and collect a tax on the full and true value of taxable property taxable under AS 43.56 as valued by the Department of Revenue at a rate not to exceed that which produces an amount of revenue from the total municipal property tax equivalent to $1,500 a year for each person residing in its boundaries.
(c) A municipality may levy and collect a tax on the full and true value of that portion of taxable property taxable under AS 43.56 as assessed by the Department of Revenue which value, when combined with the value of property otherwise taxable by the municipality, does not exceed the product of the percentage determined in (f) of this section of the average per capita assessed full and true value of property in the state multiplied by the number of residents of the taxing municipality.
(d) Each assessment year, a taxing municipality shall inform the Department of Revenue, by
(1) February 1, which method of taxation the municipality will use; and
(2) May 1, the
(A) total value of the municipality's locally assessed property tax base; and
(B) payment amount for the principal of and interest on bonds that the municipality intends to apply in its mill rate calculation for the fiscal year corresponding to the tax year for which the assessment method selected by the municipality under this section will apply.
(e) For purposes of this section, population shall be determined by the commissioner based on the latest statistics of the United States Bureau of the Census or on other reliable population data, and the commissioner shall advise each municipality of its population by January 15 of each year.
(f) The percentage in (c) of this section is based on the total tax rate established by the municipality and levied each year under AS 43.56.010(b) and is as follows:
If the tax rate determined under AS 43.56.010(b) is:The percentage is:
Not more than 18.0 mills375 percent
More than 18.0 mills but not more than 19.0 mills300 percent
More than 19.0 mills225 percent
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