Home Assessments Fall--First Time in Nine Years
This front page article from this morning's Washington Post carries the news that for the first time since 1998, the average home assessment in Fairfax County has fallen. Most residents can expect slightly lower property tax bills than those they received last year. Meanwhile the county government is figuring out how to continue to fund its budget with less money.
By Focus on Fairfax |
February 27, 2007; 9:37 AM ET
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Posted by: Jim Foster | March 1, 2007 9:11 AM
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Not only that, Connolly says that he will not increase the tax rate.
Here is how to think about your 2007 property taxes.
If your assessment went down 3%, for example, then your tax bill goes down 3%. This assumes that the BOS does not change the tax rate.
Here is a more meaningful way to look at it.
The BOS knows that November, 2007, is election time. That's why lots of us will get a token property tax cut. Surprize, surprise, surprise!
Once re-elected, the BOS will slap us, yet again, with another staggering property tax increase.
A tiger does not change his strips.
Compare your property tax bill in, say, 2001 with your property tax bill for 2007. That will tell you what the BOS did, not what they say they did.
In my opinion, there is one way and one way only to stop this madness in spending and insistence on massive tax increases.
And that way is to vote the entire BOS out of office, each and every one of them.
As I said, a tiger does not change his stripes.