Can I trade houses with you?  My 2002 property taxes will be $7.50 MORE than
the 2001.  Where's my tax cut?  I guess it got caught up in the school and
library referendum and the fact that the assessed value on my house went up
$10,500

Dean E. Carlson
East Harriet, Ward 10


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Subject: [Mpls] Property tax cut


> I just got my proposed property tax statement for 2002. I was quite
> surprised to see that they were reduced only about 12%, because I was
> expecting them to be about 25% less. Now I am wondering if the tax cut
only
> applied to the amount that the school tax portion was to be reduced? Or
> possibly only the amount over $76,000 (I think that is the base number)
was
> to be reduced by 25%? Or, if 25% is indeed the right number?
>
> If this is all that my taxes are going to be reduced, I wish that the
state
> had just kept the money, as I feel certain that this tax cut will be
> short-lived in light of both the state's projected shortfall, as well as
> the school system's never-ending appetite for more money. Not to mention
> that, for the next 20 years, half of the savings that I do see will be
> eaten up by the special assessment tax for the ornamental lights in
> Prospect Park.
>
> Can anyone enlighten me as to what the average tax cut percentage was
> supposed to be, and how it was to be applied?
>
> Nancy Alcorn
> Prospect Park
>
>
>
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