9% Property Tax Increase in Charles County

[wsmiles]

The Charles County Commissioners are proposing to raise property taxes 9%.

You can email or mail your statement to the commissioners for or against the proposed increase by Monday evening 4:30pm.
The decision will be made by May 20th at 9:15am. Please contact them as soon as you can.
email: commissioner@charlescounty.org
Mail:
Charles County Commissioners
PO Box 2150
La Plata, MD 20646

If this concerns you, please pass it along to your friends and family.


Below is the website you can read the proposal (boarddocs.com), there is also a breakdown of taxes by incorporated and unicorporated areas. I also have included the link to the FY 2008 budget. http://www.charlescounty.org/fs/budg...08/budbook.pdf

BoardDocs Public
PROPERTY TAX INCREASE

The County Commissioners of Charles County proposes to

increase real property taxes.

1.For the tax year beginning July 1, 2008, the estimated real

property assessable base will increase by 9% from

$12,295,269,757 to $13,407,139,007 in the unincorporated

areas.

2.If Charles County maintains the current tax rate of $1.026 per

$100 of assessment, real property tax revenues will increase by

9% resulting in $11,407,779 of new real property tax revenues.

3.In order to fully offset the effect of increasing assessments,

the real property tax rate should be reduced to $.941 the constant

yield tax rate.

4.The County is considering not reducing its real property tax

rate enough to fully offset increasing assessments. The County

proposes to adopt a real property tax rate of $1.026 per $100 of

assessment. This tax rate is 9% higher than the constant yield

tax rate and will generate $11,407,779 in additional property tax

revenues.

[bcp (Premo)]

now go follow the dollar and see how much the county lost during the last tax rape.
You might just find that the reductions in the counties revenue was transfered to baltimore.

did you know that since the tax rape baltimore city is actually talking about reducing its property tax and suddenly the once broke city has so much money that they can afford to pay students to learn?

the welfare city thanks you

[vanbells]

Hmmmmm...yeah, I would think the last time to voice your opinion was at the public hearing yesterday.

[wsmiles]

It may not make a difference, however, complaining afterward and sitting around waiting to pay more in taxes doesn't make much sense. At least email them. If they get flooded with emails to the commissioners and to the local paper, then somebody will take notice.

commissioner@charlescounty.org

It can't hurt to try.

[wintersprings]

Would I be wrong to say the Democrates are running things?