Wrangell Sentinel -

The borough’s code review committee has started the task of revamping two portions of the borough code.

The first has to do with sales tax, specifically a sales tax cap designed to shield large-ticket purchases from the tax. Until 2004, borough code had set a maximum of $84 tax for any single purchase in the borough, officials said.

A set of standard and unnoticed revisions took place in 2004 which essentially invalidated it, borough manger Jeff Jabusch told the committee. From 2004 until August 2013, the borough had operated as if the code allowed the tax cap. A standard review of local...