Sentences with phrase «higher local tax bases»

In return, these policies benefit not only clean energy businesses, but all North Carolina electricity consumers — even those who do not use renewable energy or energy efficiency — through lower overall energy bills, healthier communities, higher local tax bases, and jobs.

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Because each of Illinois «958 local school districts has the ability to set its own property tax rate, and because each has a different base of local property value on which to collect taxes, there is a wide variance in the tax rates and dollars that support local elementary and high schools.

Tens of thousands of workers have been hired to work on newly drilled gas wells in Pennsylvania adjacent to the Southern Tier area of New York, which has been plagued by unemployment and poverty brought about by a declining agriculture base, high taxes, and a loss of local population.

The least poorly funded schools tend to be rural schools in low income rural areas with an insufficient local tax base to support them and with high costs associated with a lack of economies of scale and large transportation costs for students.

Because the local property tax base is typically higher in areas with higher home values, and there are persistently high levels of residential segregation by socioeconomic status, heavy reliance on local financing contributed to affluent districts» ability to spend more per student.

Because the local property tax base is typically higher in areas with higher home values, and there are persistently high levels of residential segregation by socioeconomic status, heavy reliance on local financing enabled affluent districts to spend more per student.

The Kansas legislature allowed a variety of different taxes based on local circumstances such as high cost of living, low enrollment, and extraordinarily declining enrollment.

In the Serrano cases, it was the state's reliance on local property taxes to pay for education, combined with the residential preferences of higher - income homeowners, which left low - income households with a smaller tax base to fund their schools.

1973 — A complete tax base equalization program is enacted that provides a much higher appropriation of equalization aid to relieve local property taxes; discontinues general flat aids; institutes a power equalizing program providing for «negative aids»; and separates the shared cost into primary and secondary levels with a two - level system of state aid in which school costs which exceed the statutory ceiling of aidable costs are supported at a lower level of state aid to serve as a disincentive to high levels of spending.

After - tax returns are calculated based on NAV using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes.

Although less than 7 percent of Arlington's land area is high - density development, that area generates 70 percent of the county tax base, according to Creating Great Neighborhoods: Density in Your Community, produced by the Local Government Commission, a nonprofit group dedicated to creating livable communities.

«They add to the economy by creating demand for higher paid health care and financial services, as well as adding to the local tax base.