Currently, SCHE and DHE provide a property tax exemption of 50 percent
of the assessed property value for senior and disabled homeowners making up to $ 29,000 per year, with homeowners making up to $ 37,400 receiving a smaller exemption on a sliding scale.
Voters in the Mountain View - Whisman School District in Mountain View, California, will go to the polls June 3 to vote on a new five - year tax of 5 cents per square
foot of assessed property value, a levy called a parcel tax.
As a result, and because of new limits established by the state Legislature, most local school districts are asking voters for the same $ 1.50 levy rate for every $ 1,000
worth of assessed property value.
Rising property values: As property values rise across the county and new construction puts high - value properties on the tax rolls, the county has been able to reduce the tax rate — the amount of money the county charges for every $ 1,000
of assessed property value — and still collect more tax money overall.
The proposed tax rate would go up 16 cents for every $ 1,000
of assessed property value, translating to about an extra $ 15 tacked onto a homeowner's bill.
The mill rate represents the amount per $ 1,000
of assessed property value that's used to calculate local property tax rates.
A second measure also signed into law last week sets a penalty — a 10 percent income - tax surcharge — on taxpayers in districts where voters reject the minimum tax rate of $ 25 per $ 1,000
of their assessed property value.
School officials are also asking for a six - year capital levy that would add an additional 40 cents per $ 1,000
of assessed property value.
Even with the higher state tax rate, local taxpayers will be paying about $ 1.60 less per $ 1,000
of assessed property value, Anderson said.
Schools officials also want voters to approve a three - year capital levy, which would add $ 1 per $ 1,000
of assessed property value, to replace an existing capital levy.
That means state property taxes are going up, from $ 2 per $ 1,000
of assessed property value to $ 2.46, associate superintendent Mark Anderson said.
School officials also want voters to approve a four - year capital levy, which would add 80 cents per $ 1,000
of assessed property value, that would pay for installing security cameras and entry controls.
The capital levy rate would add an additional $ 1.43 for 2019 and $ 1.28 for 2020 per $ 1,000
of assessed property value.
Disabled Veterans as well as the surviving spouses of disabled veterans may be eligible to receive exemptions of up to $ 150,000
of assessed property value.