<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">It's not clear from the Daily News article, but the total increase on a $200,000 home would be $110:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><i><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">The increase would raise taxes on property owners from $4.49 per $1,000 of assessed property value to $5.63, an increase of about 25 percent. For homeowners in Moscow, who receive a state tax exemption for 50 percent of their property’s value up to $100,000, this means they would pay about $560 annually on a home valued at $200,000 — up from about $450 last year.</span> </i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">But part of the increase would come from foregone tax increases, and would be used for police raises:<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><i><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Moscow rarely accepts annual tax increases and so has the “foregone” authority to raise taxes by nearly $325,000 a year. It has elected to recapture $200,000 of that. Riedner said this will provide a stable fund to support raises planned for Moscow police officers.</span> </i><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><i><br></i></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font size="2">Ron Force<br>Moscow Idaho USA</font></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 7:58 AM <a href="mailto:rhayes@frontier.com">rhayes@frontier.com</a> <<a href="mailto:rhayes@frontier.com">rhayes@frontier.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="gmail-m_1168244870523496429yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr">Daily News yesterday reported that property taxes will go up 25% next year mainly due to the police station bond. I do not think that is what the city said was going to happen when they were hyping the bond vote. Am I correct in this? </div></div></div>=======================================================<br>
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