Hamilton County Looking at Raising Property Taxes
Posted in I have been waiting to weigh in on this subject basically because I thought I should cool off a little and not say something I would regret. Earlier this month we discussed it in a meeting at the Chattanooga Association of REALTORS Governmental Affairs committee and my blood pressure was up by the time I walked out.
Have the county commissioners forgotten they were elected on campaign promises of not raising taxes? Apparently it doesn’t matter because the election is over and by the time the next election rolls around we will have forgotten that they lied the previous time.
Hamilton County had 2500 new parcels of land platted this year that increased the tax base. And I guess the $10,000,000 extra a year and the one time allotment of $48,000,000 from the BEP program isn’t enough. Yes, all those zeros are correct, as in MILLIONS. Oh right, I forgot, before it was a done deal the commissioners were saying if we got BEP money they wouldn’t need to increase taxes. Well, we got it! Why is a tax increase under consideration again? As usual, county commissioners are using our children as an excuse to take, take, take.
Call your county commissioner about this. It’s insane.
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July 6, 2007 @ 8:44 pm
[...] His reasons were exactly as I posted previously. BEP money and county growth are the equivalent to a 26.2 cent increase so he sees "no justification for this tax increase." Permalink [...]