Kenton tax increases rile critics, create confusion

This week on The Sunday Story Podcast, LINK nky reporters Nathan Granger and Kenton Hornbeck dive into tax increases in Kenton County to learn more about the impact on Northern Kentuckians. 

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Erlanger City Council member Tyson Hermes stood at a December 2022 Kenton County Fiscal Court meeting. 

Addressing Judge/Executive Kris Knochelmann, county commissioners and staff sitting behind desks surrounding the platform where he stood, Hermes, who is also a businessman, thanked the group for his opportunity to speak.  

“The reason I wanted to address the court was just to express my distaste for the process and the timing of the tax rate increase that’s recently been announced,” he said at the Dec. 13 meeting. 

That increase had received a second reading at a meeting earlier that year, on Election Day. 

The court cast a vote to approve an increase on both employee payroll and business net profits throughout Kenton County on that Nov. 8 evening, but it wasn’t until Hermes’ comments more than a month later that rumblings of a backlash against the increases themselves came into play – along with the manner in which the county went about passing them. Read more here.

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