Weber is suggesting starting the 2027 budget at $40.6 million of sales tax, or about $300,000 lower than the current budget year. Weber’s 2027 sales tax projections, then, position next year to potentially be the city’s slowest-growth year in nearly a decade. “Increased inflation can have a positive uptick to our sales tax because as groceries go up, our sales tax goes up. “Those things, a lot of municipalities don’t collect sales tax on — we do, so that usually levels out our sales tax a little bit. Dickson also asked if the downturns in Steamboat’s sales tax revenue are a “recalibration” to more normal growth from the pre-COVID era.