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Analysis of Proposal to Replace School Property Taxes: House Bill 76 and Senate Bill 76

October 01, 2013 | Property Tax

This report presents the results from an analysis of House Bill 76 and Senate Bill 76 performed by the Independent Fiscal Office (IFO). The proposed legislation eliminates local school district property taxes and replaces those funds with sales and use and personal income taxes, as well as monies redirected from the Property Tax Relief Fund.

• Presentation to the Senate Finance Committee on 10/15/2013.
• Data for the graphs in section 4 of the report that display the annual and cumulative changes in personal income, sales and school property tax collections.
• Introduction, which contains summary results from the report.

Projections of school property taxes paid by Pennsylvania homesteads

September 16, 2013 | Property Tax

Letter containing projections of the school property taxes paid by Pennsylvania homesteads (September 2013). 

Analysis of Michigan Property Tax Reform

September 16, 2013 | Property Tax

This report presents the results from an analysis of the Michigan property tax reform known as Proposal A. Enacted in 1994, Proposal A replaced all local property taxes used for school operating purposes with higher sales and use, realty transfer and tobacco taxes. It also created a distinction between homestead and nonhomestead property to facilitate the statewide levy of uniform property taxes on those classes of property. The report makes extensive use of data published by various Michigan executive and legislative agencies to illustrate the impact of property tax reform on tax revenues, millage rates, per pupil funding levels and the property tax base over the past two decades.

Estimate of property taxes paid by Lancaster County homeowners aged 70 and over

June 24, 2013 | Property Tax

Letter containing an estimate of property taxes paid by Lancaster County homeowners aged 70 and over (June 2013).