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Westbrook City Council approves $106.5 million budget package

The $57.2 million school budget will be put to referendum on June 9.

The combined municipal and school budgets would bring a 7.61% projected tax rate increase.

by J. Craig Anderson Maine Trust for Local News April 13, 2026April 13, 2026

The federal gas tax was first imposed in 1932 as an effort to increase revenue during the Great Depression.

Maine offers a range of refunds and tax credits. Taxes and requests for extensions are due Wednesday.

Fifth Generation Inc. of Austin, Texas, failed to pay taxes on thousands of cases of vodka sold in Maine, the justices found.

The budget would represent a nearly 6% increase in the tax rate.

The proposal is up about 2.1% from last year’s but has no tax increase in its current state.

The Mi’kmaq Nation would get a representative in the Legislature under the amended bill.

City leaders credited Sen. Susan Collins’ office for helping them to secure an abatement.

The original fine was over $700,000, officials say, but the IRS told the city it had previously overpaid by about $240,000.