Albuquerque Council Dismisses Proposed 0.4875% Community Investment Tax

The Albuquerque City Council dismissed Resolution R-26-58 on August 3, leaving a proposed 0.4875% municipal gross receipts tax off the November 3, 2026, general-election ballot through that resolution.

The proposal, called the Community Investment Tax, was not enacted or collected. The council action also was not a vote by Albuquerque residents against the measure. In an August 3 statement, Council President Klarissa Peña described the dismissal as occurring on procedural grounds.

What Resolution R-26-58 proposed

The resolution would have directed the city clerk to place a question before Albuquerque voters at the November 3, 2026, general election. The question concerned a proposed 0.4875% municipal gross receipts tax.

The text of Resolution R-26-58 divided the proposed revenue into two broad categories. Fifty-three percent would have gone to municipal operations and maintenance, including employee wages.

The remaining 47% would have been dedicated to municipal community enhancement projects and related debt service, as applicable. The resolution specified that the 47% capital-and-community-project allocation would expire 21 years after the tax became effective.

The proposal listed potential capital uses including municipal facilities, infrastructure, parks, trails, open space, public safety facilities, cultural and recreational facilities, and transportation infrastructure.

What the dismissal means for Albuquerque voters

Albuquerque voters will not see the proposed Community Investment Tax on the November 3 ballot through Resolution R-26-58. The city’s legislative record identifies the resolution as filed on August 3 and shows no enactment date or final enactment number.

The immediate effect is procedural: the ballot-placement resolution did not advance to voter consideration. The action itself does not change the city’s current gross receipts tax rate.

It also does not establish a replacement measure, new funding schedule or guaranteed change to city services, employee compensation or infrastructure spending. Those questions could arise in future budget or legislative discussions, but the record reviewed for this report does not document a replacement ballot measure.

Why the proposal mattered locally

If approved and enacted, the proposed tax would have created a new local revenue stream divided between recurring municipal operations and capital or community-enhancement work. That structure connected the measure to city staffing and wages, maintenance of public facilities, infrastructure financing and projects in Albuquerque neighborhoods.

Because the measure was dismissed before reaching voters, residents will not decide through R-26-58 whether to authorize that proposed tax. The dismissal leaves the city’s identified funding priorities to be addressed through existing revenues, future legislative action or other options that may be proposed later.

Context from earlier tax proposals

Earlier Albuquerque reporting described a separate gross receipts tax effort and a revived proposal intended to send a tax question to voters. The Paper’s June coverage reported that the earlier version followed the defeat of a similar measure in March and included a 21-year sunset concept.

The August 3 action, however, concerns Resolution R-26-58 and its companion Community Investment Tax proposal. It should not be described as a voter rejection: the question did not reach the electorate.

Albuquerque Journal reporting independently confirmed the council’s rejection and placed the decision in the broader history of Albuquerque gross receipts tax proposals.

What happens next

No replacement ballot measure is established in the official record reviewed for this report. Any future proposal involving city taxes, employee wages, operations, infrastructure or community projects would require separate documented action by the city and, if submitted to voters, its own ballot process.

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