497 results found for "tax flight"

Legislature can prevent Town Meeting chaos

…limits that threaten to unnecessarily increase property taxes this year. Set the education tax yields for fiscal 2017 so that voters will know the tax consequences of their school budgets…

New report: Recovery is not benefitting all Vermonters

…or downloaded at https://publicassets.org/?p=10590 Public Assets Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that promotes sound state budget and tax policies that benefit all Vermonters. More information at www.publicassets.org   –…

Per-Pupil Education Spending and Tax Rates, Fiscal 2016

…tax base that all towns and school districts draw on. All non-residential property is taxed at the one rate statewide. Tax rates for primary residences vary by town with spending…

Vermont’s real budget problem

…the economy slows, and incomes and tax revenues shrink. The focus on the current year’s budget numbers is also shortsighted. When the Legislature or the administration makes cuts, they often…

The Con Hogan Award

…One is to join us at the event. The other is to support the annual award. I hope you will join me in making a one-time, tax-deductible gift. (If your…

Tiffany Bluemle and Scudder Parker Join Public Assets Board

…been elected to the board. A non-partisan nonprofit with offices in Montpelier, Public Assets Institute is Vermont’s premier independent research organization on state budget, tax, and economic issues and the…

At best, the new education tax law is unfair

…pupil—regardless of the value of property or amount of income within the town boundaries—have the same homestead property tax rates. The system also allows homeowners to pay school taxes based…

Legislature’s solution to high property taxes? Raise property taxes

Desperate to find a way to reduce property taxes, the Legislature’s latest idea is to increase property taxes in scores of communities. Huh? Seriously. The plan is to impose property…

Montpelier should trust, work with school districts

…onto property taxes, but then blamed local school boards for the rise in property taxes. In 2014, when voters in 34 school districts voted down their school budgets and demanded…

More cost shifts to the Education Fund

…a few years of reduced property taxes. And who covers the cost for the incentives to create REDs? You guessed it—property tax payers. The cost of tax incentives available to…

For Vermont job-seekers 2015 is off to a promising start

…seen more gains than losses. But despite state and federal tax breaks intended to stimulate employment, private employers are still not matching the job growth of the 1990s. State-subsidized wages…

Vermont doesn’t need more low-wage jobs

…of the state’s tax credit programs—Vermont Economic Growth Incentive (VEGI)—to lower the wage employers would be required to pay to qualify for the tax break. VEGI-eligible jobs now must pay…