Miller Park tax could end in late 2019 or early 2020, report says

The five-county Miller Park sales tax could end in about two years, a report prepared for the stadium district board says.

“Assuming no significant shift from current economic conditions, the district should be able to satisfy all of its current and future obligations, and therefore retire the 0.1% sales tax, sometime between late calendar year 2019 and early calendar year 2020,” says the conclusion of the report by consultant Public Financial Management Inc.

The report will be considered Tuesday by the Miller Park board.

The tax has been in effect since 1996 and is collected in Racine, Milwaukee, Waukesha, Washington and Ozaukee counties.

The sales tax funds go to retire $290 million in construction debt plus interest for the stadium, home of the Milwaukee Brewers, that opened in April 2001.

Until 2012, Miller Park district officials had hoped to stop collecting the sales tax by 2014.