An increase from 2 percent to 3 percent is a 50 percent increase, not 1 percent as your headline and story said (“Town mulls 1% sales tax hike,” Herald, Jan. 18.)
A 1 percent increase would take it to 2.02 percent. I know math is hard.
Tom Gray
Durango
Editor’s note: Reader Gray is correct. Increasing the sales tax from 2 percent to 3 percent would be an increase of 1 percentage point, not 1 percent.
