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- Property-tax cap and mandate relief may not be paired - From the Poughkeepsie Journal
- City mails 90,000 property tax assessments
| Property tax collections resume Tuesday Whitley County Sheriff's office Posted: 15 Jan 2011 12:39 PM PST Property tax collections resume Tuesday Whitley County Sheriff's officeMark White | Filed under News | Add a Comment? | 2010 property tax collections will resume Tuesday morning at the Whitley County Sheriff's Department, and the good news is that taxpayers will have two additional days to pay the tax bills at their face value before the 5 percent penalty is added. Whitley County Sheriff Colan Harrell said that property tax collections had been put on hold by the state when he assumed office so that the books on the previous administration could be closed out. Because the sheriff's department was forced to close at least part of the day during the last two business days in December, Harrell said that state officials have agreed to give county residents two additional days to pay their property taxes at their face value. "The revenue cabinet felt that this should be enacted. It's kind of a forgiveness type thing because of the emergencies that arose that prevented them from collecting the taxes," Harrell said. "They felt like this would be a fair thing to do." Starting on Thursday, Jan. 20, the 2010 property tax bills will have a 5 percent state mandated penalty added. The five percent penalty period will be in place through Monday, Feb. 21. Starting on Tuesday, Feb. 22, a 21 percent state mandated penalty will be added to all 2010 property tax bills. The 21 percent penalty will be in place until the bills are transferred to the Whitley County Clerk's Office on April 15. At that point more state mandated penalties are added. All fields but Phone Number are required to submit a comment, but contact information is for internal communication only. 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-tax cap and mandate relief may not be paired - From the Poughkeepsie Journal Posted: 14 Jan 2011 03:59 AM PST ALBANY — What will come first in New York: mandate relief or a property-tax cap? Gov. Andrew Cuomo is expected to introduce a bill in the coming weeks to cap property taxes in the state, but it may not be coupled — at least initially — with reforms to the state-mandated programs that local governments and schools are desperately seeking. "I don't know that they have to be in the same bill. But I believe you need mandate relief. The definition of that is different depending on who you talk to," Cuomo said this week. "But I believe you need mandate relief and property-tax relief. They could be one bill. They could be two bills." Cuomo has stressed his support for mandate relief and has formed a task force to come back with recommendations by March 1. Yet if he pushes for a tax cap before then, the Legislature could potentially adopt it without any mandate relief until later in the legislative session. Cuomo wants to limit the growth in property taxes to 2 percent a year or the rate of inflation, whichever is lower. How Cuomo rolls out his property-tax relief agenda is being closely watched by schools and local governments who warn that Cuomo's cap would be unattainable without reducing the cost of the state programs they fund. If Cuomo seeks a tax cap without it tied to mandate relief, he may also face pushback from state lawmakers, many of whom have said that both are needed. But Cuomo is banking on the popularity of a tax cap in New York to win over legislators. The state School Boards Association said in a report last month that schools statewide would be short $815 million per year over the next four years if a cap were instituted without any reforms. They said that such a shortfall would lead to staff and program cuts — aside from any aid reductions that Cuomo may propose in his budget Feb. 1. David Albert, the group's spokesman, said Cuomo should seek a tax cap and mandate relief at the same time to ensure that schools can accurately prepare their budgets for the coming fiscal year, which starts July 1. (2 of 2) "The two really need to go together in the same legislation, voted on at the same time and preferably the mandate relief taking effect before a cap," Albert said. Sen. David Carlucci, D-Clarkstown, Rockland County, said he would have reservations voting for a tax-cap bill that didn't have mandate relief attached to it. "The cap I'm definitely committed to, but I don't want to do it on the backs (of) our schoolchildren," he said. "Mandate relief has to go with the property-tax cap." Mandate relief 2ndSome tax-cap advocates said doing the tax cap first, as Cuomo has suggested, could be the right strategic decision. It could force the Legislature to address mandate relief soon after, without bogging down the negotiations over both issues at the same time. A tax cap in itself faces a tough fight in the Legislature. "The cap does really serve as a blunt instrument to get the discussions going," said Sandy Parker, president of the Rochester Business Alliance, one of many business groups backing the cap. Stephen Acquario, executive director of the state Association of Counties, said a tax cap and mandate relief could be addressed separately but should be done within a short time frame of each other. Local governments and schools have asked for a slew of mandate reforms, such as lowering costs for health care, installing a one-year wage freeze for workers and establishing a less generous pension system for new employees. Acquario, who is a member of the mandate-relief panel, said he's confident that Cuomo and the Legislature will address the mandate problem as part of the whole property-tax issue. "I don't think this governor wants to be known and this Legislature wants to be known for destroying the foundation and the fabric of local government services," Acquario said. "That's what would happen if there was no corresponding relationship with mandate relief and a tax cap." Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, R-Canandaigua, Ontario County, said a tax cap could be used to force a mandate-relief package through the Legislature because local governments would be severely impacted without it. "To me, maybe it provides more incentive to get that mandate relief we need. So that's why I don't think it's imperative that the two be linked in the same bill," he said. 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 |
| City mails 90,000 property tax assessments Posted: 14 Jan 2011 04:26 PM PST ANCHORAGE: Average value of a single-family home rises 1.5 percent. Published: January 15th, 2011 12:59 AM Anchorage's 2011 city property tax assessments went out Friday. The city mailed 90,000 green cards to individual property taxpayers. People can also look up the new assessed values of their home -- and anyone else's -- online at muni.org. The average value of a single-family house in Anchorage rose to $316,600 from $312,000 the year before, a 1.5 percent increase, said city assessor Marty McGee. In 2010, the value of an average single-family house dropped a percentage point from 2009. Overall this year, city property values are flat, McGee said. "What we have here is a pretty stable tax base." Residential property assessed values, excluding condos and four-plexes, went up 1 percentage point, he said. The sales prices of houses backed that up, he said. "The market is telling us the value is holding," he said. Commercial property values stayed the same, McGee said. There were few sales of commercial buildings during the past year; what few there were showed sales values about the same as the year before, he said. New construction of commercial buildings is down 51 percent over last year, Mayor Dan Sullivan said in a news release. The property values mailed out and posted on the city website Friday will be used to figure tax bills, which will be sent by May 15. Between now and then, the Assembly may make final adjustments to this year's budget and tax rates. At an Anchorage Assembly work session Friday, the assessor put the city's taxation level in perspective. He said a homeowner who earns $100,000 a year and owns the average $316,600 home might pay $4,840 in property tax in Anchorage, or 4.8 percent of his income. Nationally, a homeowner earning $100,000 pays an average of $8,757 in state and local taxes, including income, property, sales and auto taxes, he said. In Anchorage, there are no sales or income taxes. On the other hand, Anchorage had the 11th highest rate of property taxes among the largest cities in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, according to a D.C. study, McGee said. Taxpayers who think there's an error on their assessments can get a review by the city's property appraisal staff. If there's still disagreement, taxpayers have until mid-February to file formal appeals. Appeals must be accompanied by a filing deposit that will be refunded to taxpayers who follow through on the process. Find Rosemary Shinohara online at adn.com/contact/rshinohara or call her at 257-4340. 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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