Property owners will get to decide in the next eight weeks whether they are willing to triple the amount of road tax they now pay. Read more

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 Under one scenario, the Buckeye Wind Project could pay $1.2 million to $1.8 million a year to Champaign County schools and government entities, making it one of the county’s largest sources of revenue. Read more

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 City leaders may be able to avoid an anticipated tax increase for 2012, even though almost no growth is expected in city property and sales tax revenue for the next fiscal year. Read more

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 At $25,000, the congregation at the Set Free Deliverance Church in southeast Dallas thought their new land purchase was a good deal. Read more

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 The Northampton County Board of Supervisors approved its $24.3 million Fiscal Year 2013 budget on Tuesday with both increases and reductions in current tax rates. Read more

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 Citing apparent attempts to beat the system, state Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) criticized the city Department of Finance, accusing it of allowing delinquent property owners who failed to pay their property taxes to remove their properties from the annual tax lien sale by submitting fraudulent checks. Read more

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 The Garden City Council is on the verge of joining most of Chatham County’s other cities in levying a property tax on its residents. Read more

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 A day after City Council gave preliminary approval to a budget deal that would delay Mayor Nutter's controversial property-tax overhaul by a year, state lawmakers began eyeing efforts to lessen the impact of possibly costly real-estate-tax appeals. Read more

 Being recognized as a 501(c)(3) organization confers several benefits on an organization, including for example the ability of donors to deduct charitable contributions. Read more

 In a handful of New Jersey towns, residents who already bear the burden of the nation's highest property taxes are starting to see new and increased fees on everything from recreation programs to ambulance service. Read more

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 According to a recently compiled report, the amount of unpaid business property taxes in Calhoun County is down sharply, which at least one county official thinks could be a sign of an improving economy. Read more

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 Overland Park wants Teva NeuroscienceInc. to maintain at least 240 jobs and use local hotels as conditions of keeping promised tax abatements. Read more

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 NuVasive Inc. is seeking a 10-year tax abatement to help the medical device manufacturer add 17 jobs and invest $74.9 million in its Memphis distribution facility. Read more

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 City officials have sponsored a bill that would restrict the 17.5 percent tax abatement awarded to owners of condominium and co-op units and abolish it altogether for people who aren’t primary users, NY1 reported.  Read more

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 Digesting a mound of paperwork representing 15 City of Greencastle resolutions and the tax-abatement requirements of six local industries, Greencastle Development Center Director Bill Dory made an example of Heartland Automotive. Read more

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 The financial unknown weighing on the minds of county officials this fiscal year was finally resolved last week when the Milam Appraisal District and Luminant settled on an assessed taxable value for the company’s property. Read more

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 The Mecklenburg County Assessor’s Office said Friday it has hired veteran tax administrator and appraiser Kimberly Horton as the county’s new revaluation manager. She replaces Chuck Hicks, who retired April 1 after 23 years. Read more

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 The job of revaluating all property in the Township of West Milford last year was done "correctly and uniformly" by Appraisal Systems Inc., Tax Assessor Brian Townsend told a worried, irate crowd at a meeting in the municipal building on June 6. Read more

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 Property taxes are going up so stormwater fees will go down. Read more

 The East Ridge City Council, with much more discussion and two close votes, opted Thursday night to continue with avoiding a property tax increase and having the county trustee send out a yearly garbage bill. Read more

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Thursday, December 13, 2012 - 9:37am

 Tuesday marked an unusual occurrence for Kootenai County, when the Idaho Board of Tax Appeals held a hearing where the county Assessor's Office appealed a property assessment. Read more

Thursday, December 13, 2012 - 9:37am

 A snafu at the Jackson County Assessor's Office resulted in 19,173 incorrect property tax statements sent out this year and millions of dollars wrongly credited to schools or shortchanged to urban renewal agencies. Read more

Thursday, December 13, 2012 - 9:38am

 City councilors have yet to decide whether to discipline the two assessors over a tax dispute withMacy’s department store that forced a nearly $960,000 refund and one assessor’s failure to maintain a certification, officials said. Read more

Thursday, December 13, 2012 - 9:38am

 Today's Monday Map looks at state government budgets - specifically, how much of each state's budget comes from the federal government. Mississippi tops the list with 49% of its general revenue coming from Washington; Alaska, by contrast, gets only 24% of its general revenue from the feds. Read more

Thursday, December 13, 2012 - 9:43am

 Business leaders from Iowa's largest communities expressed optimism Wednesday that the 2013 legislative session will produce meaningful and significant tax relief. Read more