What I found even more interesting was this quote:
"Ironically, such challenges to the city's assessments
come at a time when the owners of commercial and
industrial properties are being asked to pay a smaller
and smaller portion of the overall property tax bill.
In part, that is a product of a change in state law,
enacted by the legislature in 1999 at the behest of
business interests, which permanently reduced tax
rates on commercial and industrial properties. As a
result, homeowners, who paid approximately 32 percent
of Minneapolis property taxes in 1997, are expected to
shoulder 53 percent of the burden next year."
You mean to say that for all of Ms. Heller's bluster
about Minneapolis homeowners passing the buck to
business and asking for more services in return was,
erm, incorrect? In 7 years, the residential share of
property taxes paid went from 1/3 to 1/2? Well, how
dee do!
Let's hear the explanation for this one. Or maybe
she'll go back to insisting that property taxes aren't
high enough. Or too high. I forget which one she's on
right now.
aaron klemz
cooper
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