“Somerville schedules home-assessment revaluation meeting for property tax calculation” plus 3 more |
- Somerville schedules home-assessment revaluation meeting for property tax calculation
- Planet Election Guide: Property tax hike
- Provisional property tax bills should reflect slight decrease
- Stamford property tax hike set at 1.99%
| Somerville schedules home-assessment revaluation meeting for property tax calculation Posted: 21 May 2010 12:09 PM PDT By The Messenger-GazetteMay 21, 2010, 2:52PM
A contract was awarded to "APPRAISAL SYSTEMS INC.," at 8 Cattano Avenue in Morristown. The firm will hold a public information meeting on Monday, May 24, at 7 p.m. at Council Chambers inside Somerville Police Headquarters, 24 South Bridge Street. The introductory letter has been approved by the municipality. On April 19, 2010 introductory letters were mailed to all property owners within the municipality. This mailing includes a two color, four-page brochure that explains the reasons for the program and the methodology to be employed. We have established an "800 line" service to handle any inquires from residents. Letters have been mailed to Borough property owners notifying then that an inspector will be stopping by to conduct an exterior and interior inspection. All owners are urged to cooperate. All inspectors will have proper identification. If no one is home during the first inspection, a card will be left telling the owner that an inspector stopped by, and to call the phone number listed so as to arrange for a mutually agreeable inspection time. Additionally, all income-producing properties (apartments, offices, etc.) will receive income and expense forms to fill out and return to the appraisal firm. Should you have any questions please contact Appraisal Systems at 1-800-994-1999. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Planet Election Guide: Property tax hike Posted: 21 May 2010 06:54 AM PDT Dear Reader - We wish to keep our comments section as open and unfettered a forum as possible. However, in posting below you agree to the following guidelines: Be relevant. Keep your comments germane to the issue. Be respectful of others, the writer and the subjects of the story. Do not post potentially libelous statements or ad hominen attacks; obscene, explicit, or racist language; personal insults or threats. Never use another person's real name to disguise your identity. Be aware, in accordance with the Communications Decency Act, you are responsible for comments posted on this Web site. And while you may post anonymously, your anonymity is not guaranteed. All IP addresses are kept on file by Telluride Daily Planet. TDP is not liable for messages from third parties. TDP reserves the right to edit or remove any posting. Thank you for your comments, Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Provisional property tax bills should reflect slight decrease Posted: 21 May 2010 03:10 AM PDT LA PORTE — Many county residents will find a slight decrease in their property tax bills for 2010 when provisional bills are sent starting the first week of June, County Treasurer Nancy Hawkins said. In 90 counties, including La Porte, property tax bills will be capped at 1 percent of assessed value for homeowners, 2 percent for landlords and 3 percent for businesses. Total property tax savings for homeowners this year should average $50 to $150, according to state tax calculators. This is the third year of provisional billing for La Porte County property owners. Property tax bills have been issued provisionally in La Porte County due to the fight over 2006-pay-2007 assessed property values, Hawkins said. "They've been a mirror image of past bills, except this one will show the new reductions for those who qualify," Hawkins said. Since the provisional bills are being calculated from 2005-pay-2006 assessed property values, she said, property owners may face additional payments for those years once the county's lawsuits are settled. Tax payments will be due July 9 and Nov. 10. Payments received after those dates will incur a 10 percent penalty. The penalty will be reduced to 5 percent if the payment is made within the first 30 days after the due date. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Stamford property tax hike set at 1.99% Posted: 20 May 2010 06:50 PM PDT STAMFORD -- After a one-day delay, the Board of Finance finalized the property tax increase for next fiscal year at 1.99 percent, one of the smallest hikes in a decade, according to city officials. The increase means the average Stamford home, assessed at $537,338, would see a tax bill of $9,156, or $166 more than the current year. Tax on the average residential condominium, assessed at $254,409, would be levied at $4,335, an increase of $79. City Director of Administration Fred Flynn said the bump was "extremely" low compared with Stamford's 5.12 average annual tax increase over the past decade. "It's dramatically less than anything they've seen on average in the last 10 years," Flynn said of city taxpayers. "That's consistent with the administration's goal of bringing fiscal discipline to bear in a difficult environment." The gross tax increase translates into an average mill rate of 17.04 for the fiscal year beginning July 1, a jump of 1.85 percent over this year's 16.73 mill rate. The mill rate determines how much owners pay in property taxes. One mill is equal to $1 in taxes for every $1,000 in assessed property value. Republican Board of Finance member Bob Kolenberg patted board Chairman Joe Tarzia and Mayor Michael Pavia on the back for the low tax increase. Kolenberg said the city would have faced a 12 percent tax hike if the mayor and Board of Finance had not taken steps to cut costs. "It took a lot of hard work by our mayor and the Board of Finance, and it's an outstanding achievement for the taxpayers and for this administration," Kolenberg said. Board Democrat Tim Abbazia said the congratulations are overstated. When inflation rates and salary growth are taken into account, a 2 percent increase this year is "just as costly to the citizens as the average increase of the past 10 years," he said. Abbazia also lamented cuts to city services, including the elimination of funding for Project Music, a program that provides low-income children with music lessons, and funding cuts to the Senior Center and community nonprofits. The mill-rate vote was delayed Tuesday after board Independent Kathleen Murphy raised questions regarding how the city distributes the cost of fire protection throughout the four tax districts. After city officials reviewed Stamford Fire and Rescue data Wednesday, the board adopted an adjusted formula, slightly decreasing the mill rate in districts A and B, to 17.17 and 16.80 and increasing the rates in districts C and CS, to 15.95 and 16.28. Fire officials said the rates more accurately reflect the reality of today's fire service, in which Stamford Fire and Rescue personnel are often shuffled from station to station, sometimes in districts C and CS, to comply with contractual minimum manpower requirements. "What the formula did is we took the number of firefighters assigned to district C or CS and figured that as a percentage of the overall cost," Assistant Fire Chief Peter Brown said. "It equalized it out." The board set the personal property tax rate, which largely affects office equipment, at 17.17. The mill rate for motor vehicles, at 26.50, did not increase. In a separate vote Tuesday, the Board of Finance set the contingency fund, a reserve for unexpected expenses, at $3.75 million, with $1 million reserved for public safety overtime, $1.35 million for employee termination costs related to the city's planned 50 or so layoffs, $800,000 for unanticipated snow and weather events, and the rest for primary elections, the Smith House municipal nursing home, and other miscellaneous unanticipated expenses. The board did not set aside additional funding for the Ferguson Library system in the contingency, as many Board of Representatives members urged. When Pavia presented his budget in March, it eliminated 10 percent from the budget of most city departments. The Board of Finance later cut an additional $1.5 million, resulting in a combined $449.5 million city and education budget. The Board of Representatives, seeing little room for more cuts, eliminated $65,000 from the mayor's budget earlier this month, in a move that appeared to target the job of Pavia spokesman Bob Lupinacci. Staff writer Magdalene Perez can be reached at 203-964-2240 or magdalene.perez@scni.com. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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