“Property tax bills are on their way” plus 2 more |
- Property tax bills are on their way
- Property tax revenue up 2.1 percent in 2010
- Error on property tax bills inflates apparent increase over 2009
| Property tax bills are on their way Posted: 16 Sep 2010 12:03 AM PDT KINGMAN — Tax bills for Mohave County property owners are now, or soon will be, in the mail. Tax bills are being printed and mailed out this week, and all the bills should be mailed out by Sept. 24 if there are no problems with the printing machines, Mohave County Treasurer Melissa Havatone said. "It's a process and teamwork collaborated between the treasurer, assessor, communications and information technology," she said. At the August board meeting, the supervisors approved the property tax rate that will be increased to $1.46 per $100 assessed value on a home. The property tax rate for the 2009-10 fiscal year had been $1.26 per $100 assessed value on a home. The supervisors also adopted the tax levies and rates for the county's taxing authorities, including the school equalization tax. Tax authorities include the county, library district, flood control district, Mohave Community College and school and fire districts.In recent years, the tax bills were sent out by the second or third week of September. Maricopa County often sends property tax bills out the second week of September. There is no deadline for when bills are to be sent to property owners. Last year, the county had to wait to mail out taxes until after Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed an Arizona Senate bill that would have repealed a school equalization tax. In 2009, the school equalization tax was added to the property tax, costing taxpayers 33 cents per $100 assessed value on a home. For a $100,000 home, the tax added $33 to a tax bill. How the money is distributed to the school districts would be up to the state school superintendent. This year, the school equalization tax will be 35.6 cents per $100 assessed value on a home. For a $100,000 home, the tax would add more than $35 to the tax bill, Havatone said. Starting with the 2006-07 tax year, the state legislature set the school equalization tax rate at 0. The school tax was first enacted in 1981 at 50 cents per $100 assessed value and has decreased since after the Truth-In-Taxation provisions were enacted in 1998. Without the school equalization tax, the state lost about $250 million in revenue for schools for the 2008-09 fiscal year. The first half of property taxes in Mohave County is due Oct. 1. Taxes will become delinquent if not paid after Nov. 2. If a homeowner pays off the entire amount by Dec. 31, there is no penalty. Otherwise, the penalty is 16 percent for the year or 1.33 percent per month. The second half payment is due March 1 with taxes delinquent after May 1. Taxes of more than $100 may be split into two, six-month payments. Taxes less than $100 must be paid by Oct. 1. Property taxes also can be paid online. There are about 270,000 parcels in Mohave County. Depending where one lives, about 17 percent of all property taxes go to Mohave County for county services. The following are comments from the readers. In no way do they represent the view of mohavedailynews.com. You must register with a valid email to post comments. Only your Member ID will be posted with the comments.
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| Property tax revenue up 2.1 percent in 2010 Posted: 15 Sep 2010 03:05 PM PDT Sep. 15, 2010 at 2:44pm Property tax revenue increased 2.1 percent to $8.8 billion in 2010, the Washington State Department of Revenue reported today. About $52 million of the $181.6 million in additional revenue compared to 2009 stems from new construction added to the tax rolls. Another $99.2 million was because of higher voter-approved levies. Voters approved 38.6 percent of property taxes due in 2010 through school levies and bonds, levy lid lifts, funding for emergency medical services and other measures. The average property tax on a single-family home dropped $26 to $2,618. Levy rates rose to a statewide average of $10.28 per $1,000 assessed value due largely to an 8.1 percent drop in the assessed values of existing properties. Click here for the complete Property Tax Statistics 2010 report. Plenty more in the Archives The comments function of the Business Examiner community is meant to encourage conversations and spark ideas about business issues in the South Sound. The feature is free and open to members of the public who register basic log in information. Comments should be concise, on topic and avoid attacks, profanity or abusive language or content. Comments that are deemed to violate this policy will be removed. 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 | ||||
| Error on property tax bills inflates apparent increase over 2009 Posted: 16 Sep 2010 12:19 PM PDT More than 17,000 property tax bills mailed to Story County residents in Ames and Huxley listed incorrect tax histories that inflated the apparent increase over 2009 payments, Story County Treasurer Dave Jamison said Wednesday. "The error occurred in the levy rate for the prior year data, the comparison," Jamison said. "So it had no impact on the current year taxes or levy rates, but it did lead to a false impression of the amount of the increase." Property tax statements for Ames used a levy rate of $30.05 per $1,000 valuation for 2009 instead of $31.68, giving the appearance of an 8.5 percent property tax increase instead of the actual 2.9 percent increase. For Huxley, the statements used a levy rate of $39.27 per $1,000 valuation, showing a 4 percent tax increase instead of the actual 1 percent increase. Calculated tax payments, due by Sept. 30, were not affected by the data error. "The root of the problem is we've got kind of a jumbled-up mess for real estate software," Jamison said. "I've been advocating for years to get off our current setup, and we're doing that next year." Jamison said a clerk in his office discovered the error during the week of Aug. 1. He sent a memo to taxing authorities, including the city of Ames, on Aug. 25. "I told them it was my intention to not do anything further in terms of notifying the public, or sending mailers out," Jamison said. "I left it open to them that if they thought that would be helpful to their citizens, we could certainly look at that. But with nearly everything involved, there's some kind of expense."Reprinting and mailing the 17,172 erroneous statement, just under half of those mailed out in the county, would cost about $8,400, he said. Ames Finance Director Duane Pitcher said he e-mailed Jamison after Ames City Councilman Peter Orazem talked to him about a letter to the editor from Erik Charter, of Huxley, in the Sunday, Aug. 1, edition of The Tribune. Pitcher said he wrote to Jamison that the city received complaints and asked if Jamison planned to mail residents about the error. "We felt like the notice should come from him," Pitcher said. He received Jamison's Aug. 25 memo in response. "We were waiting for something else," Orazem said Wednesday. "I informed the other City Council people about two weeks ago that if this is all we're going to get, at the next meeting I'm going to make a statement." Orazem, who is elected at-large, addressed the error during the comments period of Tuesday's council meeting. "I thought the public was owed an explanation," he said. "We're public servants, even if you think it's a minor problem, you say a mistake was done and here is the nature of the mistake." Orazem said he wished the error was handled differently. "We get a lot of money from the public, they need to trust what we're doing," he said. Jamison said, "We understand that any error on the tax statement draws into question the credibility of all data on the tax statement, so we take this very serious, and we'll do everything we can to make sure these errors do not happen in the future." Jennifer Meyer can be reached at (515) 663-6918 or jmeyer@amestrib.com.
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