Making News

Hillsborough half-cent tax increase for transportation gains support
June 16, 2015

TAMPA — Hillsborough County political leaders expressed nearly unanimous support Wednesday for putting a half-cent-per-dollar sales tax increase on the November 2016 ballot to finance road and mass transit projects.

Though they didn’t vote, many members of the county’s Transportation Policy Leadership Group said they supported the sales tax referendum because of the inadequacies of Hillsborough’s transportation system. The daily traffic jams not only are a source of frustration to local motorists, they are seen as an impediment to attracting top-quality businesses.