County Auditor-Treasurer Braidy Powers received a reply from the Minnesota Department of Revenue regarding why Cook County received only $8,754 in sales and excise taxes from the Grand Portage Reservation in 2009, when it had received $72,819 the year before.
The state told Powers that incorrect reporting by the petroleum suppliers and incorrect calculation of reservation use resulted in the discrepancy. The county should actually have received less in 2008 and more in 2009, leaving the county with $9,766 more this year than it had initially received.
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