“33,000-penny property tax payment refused” plus 3 more |
- 33,000-penny property tax payment refused
- Property owners to see tax increase
- Property tax levy lowered
- County's property tax increases, assessed value declines
| 33,000-penny property tax payment refused Posted: 27 Aug 2010 01:16 PM PDT CLE ELUM, Wash. – A businessman who tried to pay a property tax bill with 33,000 pennies got turned down by a county treasurer in Washington state, who said she didn't have the staff to count them. Ron Spears told the Ellensburg Daily Record he rolled buckets of the coins into the Kittitas County treasurer's office Tuesday to protest the fines he incurred by failing to pay a $34 bill that was due in April. Spears owns Spears Interiors in Cle Elum and also serves on the city council. He says his business is struggling and he didn't have the money at the time. When Treasurer Deanna Panattoni refused to accept the pennies, Spears agreed to pay in a more conventional manner. ___ Information from: Daily Record, http://www.kvnews.com This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Property owners to see tax increase Posted: 27 Aug 2010 06:47 AM PDT COLUMBUS — Platte County property owners will see an increase of more than $1 million in the upcoming 2010-11 property tax levy. The increase is a result of the county supervisors' commitment to utilize the county's full taxing authority permitted by law. The decision came during Wednesday's budget workshop, which followed the setting of the levy for the county's subdivisions. The focus of the budget workshop was to set the tax request for all the county's elected offices and county funds. Included in the estimated $1 million-plus increase is the recovery of $983,461 unused taxing authority created last year when the board chose not to levy the full amount available to it and an additional 3.5 percent over the county's restricted fund base. The county's 2009 property tax request totaled $6,501,258, creating an unused taxing authority of $983,641, which, when levied, can only be used for capital improvements. The unused taxing authority allows the county to levy taxes that represent the gap between the levy lid and the amount actually levied in taxes the previous year. The $983,641 unused taxing authority currently available to Platte County represents the difference between what the county actually collected in 2009-10 fiscal year and the total taxes the supervisors could have levied. Each county's restricted fund base consists primarily of property tax revenues and state aid was established at the rate in effect in 1998 when the unused taxing authority was established. Since that time a 2.5 percent increase over the restricted fund base was allowable each year, and the supervisors have authority to raise taxes an additional 1 percent making possible a 3.5 percent tax increase each year. The restricted fund base consists primarily of property tax revenues and state aid. "This $983,461 has to be used for capital improvements," said Platte County Supervisor Ron Pfeifer, District 4, during a phone interview Thursday. "That money is being earmarked for use in one of the three road projects that we've been talking about lately." The three projects include the complete reconstruction of Lakeview Road, the resurfacing of 48th Avenue and the reconstruction with curb and gutter of Eighth Street. County property owners will have an opportunity to offer their support, opposition or suggestions during a public hearing to take place Tuesday, Sept. 7, before the board adopts its proposed budget. "None of this is final until the board approves the proposed budget at the next meeting," Pfeifer said. "With property valuations up and the final numbers not quite ready yet, the levy for the general budget may stay the same or even go down a bit. We won't know exactly what the valuations may do to this until we have final numbers." This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Posted: 26 Aug 2010 11:20 PM PDT For the second year in a row, the Cole County Commission reduced the property tax levy for the general fund. On Thursday, commissioners approved a rate of 11.76 cents for each $100 of assessed property value. This is a 66 percent reduction from the 33.47-cent rate in 2008, or more than $2.8 million in lowered property taxes. Read the full article in our newspaper or e-Edition for Friday, Aug. 27, 2010.  This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| County's property tax increases, assessed value declines Posted: 26 Aug 2010 11:28 PM PDT Graham County's property tax rate increased for the 2010-11 fiscal year from $$1.555 to $1.8132 per $100 assessed, value, but tax rates for several public school districts decreased. The Graham County Board of Supervisors approved the new tax rates after a taxation hearing Aug. 16. This year's tax levy is $3.943 million compared to last year's tax levy of $3.450 million — an increase of $493,000. The new tax rate is $0.2582 more than last year's rate. This means the owner of a $100,000 home will pay $25.82 more for property taxes — unless the home's assessed value decreased. According to taxing information released by the county, Graham's assessed value decreased from $221.875 million last year to $217.455 this year. For homeowners, the assessed values of their homes are equal to 10 percent of the full-cash value. The tax rate decreased in several county school districts but increased in others. For the Safford School District, the primary property tax rate was set at $3.19 per $100 assessed value — $1.06 per $100 less than last year. The tax rate decreased also for the Thatcher School District from $2.745 per $100 assessed value to zero. A secondary tax rate of $1.1700 in Safford and $1.4499 remains in place. Secondary tax rates are used to pay off debts. The primary property tax rate increased slightly in the Pima School District — from $3.1651 to $3.5528. The secondary tax rate dropped, however, from $1.0200 to $0.4278, according to taxation information from the county. The primary tax rate also dropped in Solomon and Bonita. In Solomon, the rate decreased from $4.3850 to $1.109, and in Bonita, the rate went from $3.5660 to $2.8325. In Klondyke, the school property tax increased from $1.9446 to $2.4094. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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