Private planes, nonscheduled commercial planes, boats and motor homes are not taxed. The bulk of Personal Property valuation is business inventory and equipment. The value of commercial airplanes is based on their time spent in Anchorage. It is assumed that the average stop is 1.5 hours. This is likely incorrect since the switch from a primarily passenger airport to a cargo center.
Cargo planes spend much longer on the ground.
Taxes on cars and other vehicles are paid when you register the vehicle. Tax cap activists Uwe Kalenka and his brother attended the meeting without comment aside from self-introductions. Regarding the Alaska Digitel Tower, Dick advised that he had written most of the new tower law. The towers cannot be put on a residential property that has a home on it. That severely limits where the towers can go in Anchorage.