Saturday, March 20, 2010

“Six of the top 10 school property tax rates are for Cuyahoga County districts (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)” plus 3 more

“Six of the top 10 school property tax rates are for Cuyahoga County districts (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)” plus 3 more

Six of the top 10 school property tax rates are for Cuyahoga County districts (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)

Posted: 20 Mar 2010 12:32 PM PDT

For those thinking that tax rates reflect a communities' understanding that education of their young is a deserving and productive expense. Noble words but then where is Chagrin Falls, Bay Village, Westlake, Rocky River, Beachwood, Solon, etc. meaning other districts that pay less in taxes and maintain the best districts around and according to the list don't tax their residents as much.

The average tuition at Catholic high schools nationwide was $6,906 during 2006-2007, according to the annual statistic report by the National Catholic Education.

The National Association of Independent Schools, which represents about 1,300 nonsectarian and religious schools, lists average private high school costs at $17,555 during 2006-2007.

What is the national average cost per student in public school? $9666 per year.

It is not money but a student's attitude and a student's interest to learn.

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Planet Election Guide: Property tax hike (Telluride Daily Planet)

Posted: 20 Mar 2010 10:27 AM PDT

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Property tax revenues continue downward spiral (Battle Creek Enquirer)

Posted: 20 Mar 2010 01:39 AM PDT

For the first time in 16 years, property tax bills are going down.

"This is the first time in history that we are seeing a downward spiral year after year," Calhoun County Administrator Kelli Scott said at Thursday's county Board of Commissioners meeting. "For the most part, people's taxes are going down."

The county expects property taxes to go down next year as well, Scott said.

"It's great for homeowners," said John Hippensteel, deputy director for the county's equalization department.
"The bad part is that means declining revenues for cities, schools, libraries -- any taxing authorities."

"We're expecting at least a 2 percent drop in revenue this year, which is close to $400,000," Scott said Friday of the county's tax-revenue picture.

Ever since voters agreed to add Proposal A to the Michigan Property Tax Code in 1994, property taxes have increased steadily, Hippensteel said.

Proposal A was designed to protect property owners as home values skyrocketed in the 1990s.

Instead of being taxed based on market property values, citizens were charged the equivalent of what they paid the year before.

Taxes steadily increased each year because inflation was used as a factor in calculating property tax bills.

Hippensteel said the taxable value of a property is found by multiplying the previous year's taxes by an inflation factor.

For years, use of the taxable value has protected homeowners from paying sky-high property taxes while the housing market prospered.

But this year, the inflation factor actually lowered taxable property values. And for the first time since 1994, the market values of homes fell below the set tax rate.

"It brings tax bills down, but it also brings revenue down," Hippensteel said. "Everything is going up in price, and health insurance is going up, but as a county, we are making less money this year than we did last year."

Sarah Lambert can be reached at 966-0589 or slambert@gannett.com.

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Property tax bills coming next month (Evansville Courier & Press)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 09:03 PM PDT

SOUTHERN INDIANA — New property tax bills in Warrick, Posey and Gibson counties likely will be in the mail next month — but no one has any exact dates yet.

Vanderburgh County officials announced this week that 2009-pay-2010 tax bills there are expected to arrive in the mail between April 9 and April 23.

In Posey County, the new bills will have been a long time coming. Treasurer Linda Curtis said Posey is only now catching up to other area counties to overcome delays prompted by a 2007 state-ordered property reassessment.

State law requires that taxpayers have at least 15 days from the day bills are mailed until payment is due. At the same time, county officials must leave enough time to distribute tax revenue to municipal governments, schools and libraries by June 30, the end of the fiscal year.

• Warrick County Treasurer's Office: (812) 897-6166

• Gibson County Treasurer's Office: (812) 385-2540

• Posey County Treasurer's Office: (812) 838-1316

• Vanderburgh County Treasurer's Office: (812) 435-5248

To view the Indiana Department of Local Government Finance's status map for all 92 counties, go to www.in.gov/dlgf/files/2010_Cert_Status.pdf.

Payment of the spring installment of property taxes should be due from taxpayers no later than May 10, according to state law.

Curtis said Posey County officials have been working hard for some time to complete the complex, months-long property assessment-to-tax billing process in time to get state approval to mail and receive about 18,000 tax bills on time.

"The (county) auditor's office is going to start putting (tax) rates in the system, I hope the first part of next week, and start on their abstracts," she said. "Depending on whether they run into any complications, we hope to have our tax bills out toward the end of April."

Curtis said it would take some luck for the bills to go out in enough time to give taxpayers at least 15 days before a May 10 due date.

"(The due date) might be a little later than May 10," she said.

The Posey County treasurer marveled at how far the county has come to catch up in tax billing after the state-ordered property reassessment.

"We had two full year collections last year," she said. "May of last year, we collected the 2007-pay-2008 taxes, and in November we collected the 08-pay-09. Now we're back on track to collect two installments of 2009-pay-2010."

The Indiana Department of Local Government Finance, which approves certified budgets for taxing units and sets tax rates, anticipates 75 to 80 of Indiana's 92 counties will send this year's property tax bills in time to meet the May 10 statutory due date.

That includes Warrick and Gibson counties.

Kim Kelly, a deputy in the Warrick County Treasurer's Office, said the office doesn't know precisely when 2009-pay-2010 tax bills will go out. "We will make May 10, one way or the other," Kelly said with a chuckle.

Sue Mounts, a deputy in the Gibson County Treasurer's Office, said the county's roughly 33,000 tax bills are being printed and probably will be in the mail within 10 to 14 days.

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