[Summit] Tax Increase...Again.

[Timothy Lazarus]

Actually, in his speech about next years budget to the council, the mayor
pledged not to raise commercial, residential, or automobile taxes. This
appears to be solely driven by the council. Either way, raising taxes on
owned occupied residences isn't the solution.
On Jun 3, 2014 4:03 PM, "Coryndon Luxmoore" <coryndon at luxmoore.com> wrote:

> The promise was a commercial property tax freeze.
>
> As bad as our mil rate is the commercial one is atrocious and is pretty
> bad for local merchants who are on triple net leases. I don't really agree
> with the lowering of the mil rate of the 1-5 unit properties owned by
> nonresident landlords which is driving the increase for our mil rate.
> Treating the owners of high-rise apartments differently than lower density
> buildings makes no sense to me.
>
> If you want to really lower property taxes your will have to ask the state
> legislature to stop cutting taxes (estate and top income tax brackets) and
> thus cutting state aid to towns.
>
> -- C
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Timothy Lazarus <timothyyl at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> It looks like taxes may be going up for a lot of us...
>>
>> http://samzurier.com/june-2-2014-ward-letter/
>>
>> So much for the promise of a budget that didn't raise taxes this year.
>>
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