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GOP legislators aim to cut Arizona utility taxes to pay back 'overcharges'

Candidates for Arizona Corporation Commission take aim at rate hikes, utility spending on renewables

PHOENIX — Saying electric customers paid too much for years, two Republican lawmakers have a plan to pay it back — sort of — over the next 20 years.

But the $2.3 billion that Reps. David Marshall of Snowflake and Ralph Heap of Mesa say is the overcharge figure would not come from utilities that collected the money. Instead, it would come from money the state would otherwise collect in sales taxes on customer bills.

That would cut state revenues by more than $687 million.

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