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Property tax rates are currently projected to jump by more than 20% next year due to unexpectedly high budget proposals from local school districts. A plan from Democratic lawmakers would give schools time to revise and reduce their budgets.
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The most recent forecasts predict that school taxes could rise an average of 17% next year. So this Thursday, House and Senate lawmakers took testimony from school districts across the state to get a better understanding of the unprecedented rise in spending.
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As school boards worked to finalize the budgets they'll put to voters in March, lawmakers returned to the Statehouse to discuss a projected 18.5% rise in education taxes.
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Here's how Vermont lawmakers are thinking about issues such as ambulance funding and paid family and medical leave.
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This hour, host Connor Cyrus speaks with a state tax official about mandatory home reappraisals in Vermont and what they mean for homeowners and potential buyers.
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A new law will make it easier for some landowners to let their forests grow old — by making them eligible for a tax break.
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Property values determine taxes, but what happens when the town can’t go inside homes for appraisals? Plus, dealing with the state’s budget gap, merged…
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Vermont’s property tax system is dependent on strangers walking into your house. The only way for your town to know the true value of your home, and to…
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State government almost shut down earlier this year, and the fight was largely over education funding.And all of those debates in Montpelier, and…
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Vermont’s public education system is at a crossroads — and school districts across the state are trying to determine a way forward in order to provide a…