It's also worth pointing out a deeper selfishness involved involved in the equation: Democratic states functionally subsidize Republican states, and as I found in my distant days in the Texas Legislature, (relatively) pro-tax urban areas typically subsidize low -
tax rural counties (think of Michelle Bachmann's family farm subsidy payments as an example).
Not exact matches
Total property
taxes in Madison
County range from 36.5 mills (a mill is 1 / 10th of a percent) in
rural areas (those that are not a part of any municipality) to 58 mills in Huntsville.
Actual property
tax rates in the
county are based on assessed value (10 % of market value), with millage rates ranging from 28 in
rural areas of district 1 up to 43 in the city of Fairhope.
Property
tax rates range from 39 mills in
rural areas in the northern part of the
county up to 51.5 mills in Anniston.
In
rural Wayne
County, the state has granted $ 300,000 worth of
tax breaks to help Motts expand an applesauce and juice factory.
WHEREAS, Farms also provide jobs, use less in services than they pay in property
taxes, maintain wildlife habitat and water quality when well - managed, create beautiful scenic vistas, highlight the cultural heritage of many
rural areas in the
County, and offer fresh, local food to
County residents;
After receiving an award for his decades of dedication to the Business Council, Roger Hannay, who runs a reel - manufacturing company in
rural Albany
County, drew a peel of chortles when he noted, «Most of us probably have no access to the
tax benefits of Start - UP NY?
Any cut to central office is really difficult, especially for your more
rural, smaller districts that don't have a large
tax base for
counties to supplement.»
Beginning in 2018, the legislature will rob urban and suburban school districts, mainly in King
County, of about one billion dollars in «local levy» funds (paid for with property
taxes of King
County homeowners), change the name of this billion dollars to «state levy» funds and then spreads this money around to more
rural school districts.
Due to I - 937, renewable developers have invested over $ 8 billion in new projects which have created thousands of jobs, and contribute millions of dollars in
tax revenue to
rural counties.
Farmers across the UK risk leaving their children with «crippling»
tax bills after they die, one of the
county's leading
rural lawyers has warned.