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Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Feb 26, 2024

As Shelby County works to build its budget for the next fiscal year, revenue information from last year's county-wide wheel tax increase will not be available. Shelby County Clerk Wanda Halbert has been submitting inaccurate reports or no reports at all during the last fiscal year, reports The Daily Memphian. “She provided three months — July, August and September — and those reports were inaccurate,” Shelby County Trustee Regina Newman told the news outlet. The county does not formally have the revenue figures it needs to accurately predict what money is on hand and report that in certified statements that meet accounting standards. Newman has been working with the Tennessee Comptroller’s audit division.