After locating the information, find out how to approximate your 2013 county, municipal and school district property taxes.
So that everything is in one thread, here are the links to the new assessments and the percentage calculator that I had on an earlier post.
The reassessments have been posted.To keep it simple, Allegheny County’s average increase in value for the 2013 court-ordered reassessment is 35%. Mt. Lebanon's average increase in value for the 2013 court-ordered reassessment is 30%, according to the county website.
http://www2.alleghenycounty.us/reval/Search.aspx This is for the 2013 tax year.
If you are mathematically challenged like me, here is a percentage calculator.
So, if Tom Moertel's analysis is correct on the reassessment that higher end properties (at lest in recent sales) got off easier than the lower priced homes, a number of us are going to get hammered.
ReplyDeleteOn top of that, remember the district has a $2 to 3 million budget hole to fill and has not yet borrowed the $30 million to finish the high school project.
The municipal's $8/month rain water 'tax' is going to look like chump change when this is all said and done.
Giffen Good
Don't forget that we haven't paid for the elementary school renovations yet.
ReplyDeleteElaine
While this deals with federal spending, it is analogous to what's going on locally. I urge you to take two minutes and watch.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/2012/04/04/bill-oreilly-taxpayer-money-being-wasted-colossal-rate
Mr. Geddes, you're not as far off the local level as you might think.
ReplyDeleteListen to the discussion on the proposed student parking fee. Mr. Cooper breaks it down and comments, that it works out to about 27 cents per day for the students, and then adds - not a big deal.
Sure, its not a big deal when you're levying against 200 students that don't have a union. Ask the board though to levy that same tiny fee on the district's teachers and administrators, and watch what happens.
There will be a grievance filed so fast your head will spin.
Remember, we still haven't seen Dr. Steinhauer or Jan Klein take a leadership role and sponsor a wage freeze as USC's counterparts have. They will of course agree to some more 4 day work weeks this summer, I'm betting with full pay.
Giffen Good
The recipe given on the county's web site for estimating your tax change – up or down – due the to reassessment is essentially what I did to estimate tax increases for the Reassessment Winners and Losers Map. So if you'd rather not do the math, you can skip to the answer by finding your house on the map and clicking on it. Up will pop a summary box containing a bunch of information, including your estimated overall tax increase, expressed as a convenient percentage.
ReplyDeleteNevertheless, I encourage you to do the math, even if you use the map, because it will help you to understand how assessments and property taxes work.
Cheers,
Tom
Yes, thank you for providing that link, Tom. Look how long it took the county to figure it out!!! You did that back in February!!!
ReplyDeleteElaine
If the buildings are closed down to save money this summer, it should be assumed the administration will not be paid for that time, and NOT receive more PTO in addition to what is already a generous vacation package. It's time to demonstrate some semblance of fiscal discipline - for once.
ReplyDelete-Wilma Zellers