I’ve written about this topic already few months ago, and now Journal News picked up the story about Westchester and upstate New York having a misfortune of being the highest taxed region in the nation!
Here is an excerpt from the online edition of The Journal News (4/19/2010):
Live in Westchester County and you pay the highest property taxes in the nation, with a median bill of $8,404 a year. Live in upstate New York, and you also have an unenviable distinction. Sixteen upstate counties — including Orleans, Monroe, Erie and Cortland — pay the highest property taxes compared with home values in the country, according to the U.S. census. In all, New York’s taxpayers pay property-tax bills that are 79 percent above the national average, a 2008 state report found. Property-tax levies grew 60 percent between 1995 and 2005, more than twice the inflation rate , the state Comptroller’s Office said.
The article from last Sunday’s paper includes nice charts and graphs – go to your local library to get your hands on it! If you can’t find it – I do have copies that I can mail, fax or scan/email you. Just drop me a note!
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