Garnett Utility customers will be receiving a credit to their bills after a local resident investigating his January utility bill discovered a tax still being applied to utility payments which should have been dropped a year ago. Richard Romig discovered the error while researching his January utility bill His investigation revealed that the half cent sales tax, originally applied to all county sales to pay off the Anderson County Jail, had not been removed from city utility billings.
Anderson County Clerk, Julie Wetstein says the payoff of the bonds came in August 2023. Garnett City Manager, Travis Wilson, says the city’s billing software was being updated to reflect the error and city customers will receive a credit to the upcoming billing reflecting the tax application to their billing history. He was unsure of the total amount of the error over the year, involving active utility accounts, saying each was going to have to be manually figured to determine the amount of credit.
Wilson says all city utility customers will be receiving a letter detailing the error with their upcoming utility bill.
