Since many of you have asked just where your taxes go and the tax summaries your receive each fall are not all that broken down, one of our readers put together a spreadsheet you can use to see where they go.
It's not fool proof or meant to be 100% accurate but it is pretty close. One example of this is with the County Permissive Medical Levy. If you use our calculator and compate it to your 2009 tax statement the Permissive Medical Levy is included in our total listing and separated out on your tax statement. Also these lists are the tax levy distributions and does not include any special assessments such as refuse district, mosquito district, street lights, street maintenance, etc., just levies taxes.
It is pretty simple, just enter the Taxable Market Value figure listed on your tax notice in the yellow box and then click either the County Mills tab at the bottom if you are a County resident or the City Mills tab if you are a City resident and voila!
You can also click the Save as Excel link in the upper right-hand corner and save it to your own computer to use as well. Play around with it and see what you think and let us know.
My browser indicates there is an unknown error and the web page is not available to check our taxes as you suggested. I hope you get the link fixed. Or maybe it is my browser.
ReplyDeleteWe're very sorry to hear you're having problems MzMontana, the tax spreadsheet should be visible to you directly from the post, it could be that your browser is out of date.
ReplyDeleteYou might try updating your browser and if that doesn't work drop us an e-mail at havredailycorrector@bresnan.net and I would be happy to e-mail you the spreadsheet as an attachment.
Thanks for reading and participating too!
It worked for me but I opened it in a new window. I put in $100,000 as my apppraised value and found it pretty accurate when compared to my property tax bill. Why doesn't the county courthouse print all these line items out on our tax notices? It is very interesting just how much of our local propery tax goes to some aspect of education and I can see why they have a few hudred thousand to flush down the Jon when the need presents itself
ReplyDeleteWorked fine on my browser. The break down is indeed interesting.
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