Bridgeville Lowers Property Tax Millage Rate
Bridgeville Borough Council lowered its property tax millage rate on Monday night due to the Allegheny County real estate reassessment. But is the tax rate still too high?
Bridgeville Borough Council lowered its property tax millage rate on Monday night due to the Allegheny County real estate reassessment. Council voted unanimously to lower the tax rate from 6.75 mills to 5.5 mills. That means a property owner with a home assessed at $100,000 in 2013 would pay $550 a year in municipal taxes. The borough decided that any windfall revenue above the 5 percent increase allowed by law would be funneled into sewer line improvement projects. And it appears the borough will be reaping a very large increase in revenue. According to the most current reassessment figures in December 2012, the borough’s overall assessment went up more than 37 percent. Calculating revenue collection history and the 5 percent permitted …
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Bill Mills
11:20 am on Friday, March 15, 2013
LOOKS LIKE BRIDGEVILLE TAX AND SPEND POLITICIANS ARE GOUGING ABOUT 10% MORE THAN THE AMOUNT PERMITTED BY LAW. They are already going to get 5% increase with the reassessments - this after the huge tax increase imposed a couple of years ago. TIME TO VOTE THEM ALL OUT!!! more ›