Property Tax Post-Mortem
Taxes are due, even if you didn’t get the notice. And if you don’t take a minute to dig out your tax bill from last year, you might not realize the increase. The City of course doesn’t show you this automatically on your tax bill. Most bills show your last payment, but not the property tax bill. I guess they hope you don’t notice. I just calculated the increases since moving here in 2003.
2003 -> 2004 = 2.59571% Increase
2004 -> 2005 = 7.58882% Increase
2005 -> 2006 = 5.45478% Increase
2006 -> 2007 = 21.03510% Increase
2007 -> 2008 = 22.24233% Increase
That’s a 72.22474% Increase in 5 years. Guess where taxes are headed? See the spreadsheet or PDF version.
