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• <b>Property</b> <b>Tax</b> Homestead Exemption Deadline is May 1
• <b>Property</b> <b>tax</b> homestead exemption deadline is May 1
• Bradford hosts <b>property</b> <b>tax</b> meeting

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<b>Property</b> <b>Tax</b> Homestead Exemption Deadline is May 1 Posted: 03 Apr 2010 01:09 PM PDT South Dakotans have until May 1 to apply for property tax homestead exemptions. Under the state homestead exemption, qualified applicants can delay payment of property taxes until their property is sold. The taxes then become a lien on the property and must be paid along with interest before the property can be transferred. To qualify, an applicant must be at least 70 or a surviving spouse, have owned a single-family home for at least three years or been a South Dakota resident for at least five years and have resided at least eight months of the past calendar year in a single-family home. They must also meet the program's income limits, $16,000 for a single-member household and $20,000 for a multiple-member household. © 2010 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.
<b>Property</b> <b>tax</b> homestead exemption deadline is May 1 Posted: 03 Apr 2010 12:28 PM PDT Sorry, readability was unable to parse this page for content. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.
Bradford hosts <b>property</b> <b>tax</b> meeting Posted: 03 Apr 2010 08:44 AM PDT By DAVID HARE Click to enlarge MARK C. PSORAS/THE REPORTER State Rep. Matt Bradford, D-70th, addresses the audience gathered for a town hall meeting on property taxes at the Skippack Township Building on Thursday. SKIPPACK — A property tax town hall meeting held on a holy week seemed appropriate, according to state Rep. Matt Bradford. "When you talk about property tax relief you have to talk about property tax reform," Bradford said Thursday at the Skippack Township building, where he hosted the meeting. "We're going to need a miracle to get it done." Bradford, D-70th, said the debate in Harrisburg on using property taxes as a source of public education funding has been heated. He likened it to the current conflagration over nationalized health care. Almost everyone can agree on the importance of funding public education; how local and state governments go about doing it is another matter. Joining Bradford was a panel of state and local representatives. Tim Allwein of the state School Boards Association perhaps best summed up at least one of the sticking points. "If you reduce or eliminate the property tax you have to replace it with something," Allwein said. "The debate is, what are you going to replace it with? Whose ox are we going to gore?" According to Allwein, the SBA is opposed to outright eliminating property tax, but supports reductions for those such as senior citizens living on fixed incomes. "The only way you'll get comprehensive tax reform is by increasing state funding," he said, adding that the "ideal" split between state and local sources would be 60-40. The current split is about 40-60, according to Bradford. But the state's contribution is on the rise thanks to Gov. Ed Rendell. Both Bradford and Allwein lauded Rendell who recently proposed a 7 percent hike in basic education funding. "(Rendell's) legacy issue will be education," Bradford said. Offering a different perspective was Matthew Brouillette, president of the Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives. Bradford described the foundation as "a conservative think tank." When it comes to education, Pennsylvania has been "spending money poorly," according to Brouillette. "We are in the top 10 in per-people spending in the nation. We're tops in teachers' salaries," he said. "But in academic performance we're not doing so hot." The problem, according to Brouillette, isn't about revenue, but spending. "This notion of put more money in and get better results is false," he said. According to Brouillette, one way school districts could save money is by handing over some services, such as food and busing, to the private sector. "Why do we need to run fleets of buses?" he said. "By partnering with the private sector school districts can off load a lot of these costs." Beth Olanoff, director of policy with the state Department of Education, said one reason the property tax has been used to fund public education is because it's a stable tax. "Another is because it's entrenched in the system," she said. Funding education is more important than ever, as "the 21st century is a different place than the 20th century," Olanoff said. Today, she said, 80 percent of high school students need to graduate with "college or career ready skills." "Other countries are not waiting around for us to get our act together," she said. "Other countries are eating our lunch." Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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