Sentences with phrase «big property tax increase»

The contingency budget, adopted after school district voters turn down a big property tax increase, is undemocratic too.

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Rising property taxes and increasing utility costs are the big ones, but it has entered into a natural gas contract that caps future gas prices at $ 4.50.

State and local governments saw a big jump in tax revenues in the final three months of 2017, due in large part to an increase in the prepayment of income and property taxes as some high - income residents sought to take advantage of deductions that will be sharply reduced in 2018.

«The rate of property tax increases is unsustainable, stifles growth and has the biggest negative impact on working families, seniors on fixed incomes and small businesses.»

Citing stances the Senators have taken detrimental to the cause of working people, the flyers highlight: Protecting a failed tax system that favors the privileged at the expense of working people; increasing the tax on health insurance; siding with big corporations and against teachers and students to pass a Charter School Bill - with no real reform; creating a new Tier V pension; and attacking education by supporting an irresponsible property tax cap.

Instead of doing good, Diaz took big checks from insurance lobbyists and stuck Floridians with higher rates; Diaz used his office to enrich himself while raising property taxes by $ 500 million — increasing the cost of living for Miami homeowners.

Kellogg said that for her and her running mates, the big challenges facing Hurley are, «Making a change in our local government, protecting the quality of life that we have in Hurley as development pressures move up the Thruway, protecting our water and the beautiful scenic qualities of our town, and maintaining our low tax rates as NYS mandates additional responsibilities to the localities without providing funding (at the same time that they cap our annual budget increases) and as we get additional pressures from New York City to reduce their tax contributions for the reservoir property.»

One of the biggest accomplishments was the Legislature successfully eliminating the county executive's proposed tax increase and adopting a budget that held the line on property taxes.

The districts, which do not include the Big 5 city school districts (NYC, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Yonkers), together expect to increase school property taxes by $ 516 million, or 2.4 percent, even while forecasting total enrollment to dip by 6,145 students, or 0.4 percent.

Cuomo only asking the people to support the cap without any mention of mandate relief is the hamburger bun without the burger and simply fuels the opposition's (they say mandate relief before tax cap) claim that tax cap alone is a big - government scheme to take power away from and defund local towns and school districts and increase the power of the larger state government which created the property tax problem in the first place by passing the mandates which are the biggest property tax drivers and now refuses to change those mandates.

Those who will get the biggest tax increases from the reduction in state and local tax deductions are those with the highest property and income taxes.

It also came as the governor continued to rail against the federal tax overhaul, something he said would cause big tax increases in the state, citing the elimination of a deduction for state and local taxes and a cap on the property tax deduction.

Booming neighborhoods such as Park Slope are the biggest beneficiaries of the city's convoluted property tax system, which limits how much the city can increase taxes on small property owners annually even as values soar.

The Our City Our Schools coalition has a plan to bring up to $ 300 million to the education budget by demanding that corporations, developers, and big nonprofits pay their fair share, instead of increasing property taxes for everyday Philadelphians.

«But for those wanting to upgrade to a bigger home or going elsewhere, they can face double or triple the cost in taxes due to high increases in property values.»