Taxes in Morrisville will stay put
How to calculate your town tax bill: One mill is equal to $1 of tax for every $1,000 of assessed property value. To calculate your tax, multiply the millage figure by your assessed property value. Don't forget to add three decimals places to the millage figure to get the accurate tax. For example, a 25-mill increase on a home assessed at $5,000 amounts to .025 times $5,000 or $125 more in taxes.Posted: Friday, December 2, 2011 12:00 am | Updated: 6:22 am, Fri Dec 2, 2011.
Morrisville property taxes should remain the same in the coming year.
Residents would continue to pay 40.93 mills if the budget is approved later this month. That means a homeowner with a house assessed at the borough average of $20,000 would pay about $818 in municipal property taxes next year.
The borough’s preliminary operating budget calls for $5.87 million in spending, slightly lower than this year’s $5.90 million.
Morrisville’s budget for next year includes $1.66 million for the police department and $1.03 million for sanitation. These are the two departments that take up most of the borough’s budget. The borough plans to spend $560,409 for administrative costs.
Less money is going toward several budget lines, including the street fund, which is getting $102,568, $32,730 less than last year.
Borough Manager Tom Bates would not discuss details of the proposed budget.
The budget is available for public inspection at borough hall, 35 Union St. It might be difficult for the public to crunch the numbers because some line items, such as several employees’ salaries, are scattered throughout different funds.
For instance, the part-time borough manager’s salary is divided into various accounts. There is no line item in the budget stating his full salary of $30,000. It appears only on his employment contract. This is the case for other municipal employees as well.
Gema Maria Duarte: 215-949-4195; email: gduarte@phillyBurbs.com; Twitter: @deadlineduarte
3 comments:
Did anyone mention when the pool would be ready?
You know, the one who's debt the taxpayers got to pay off last year.
Never. What's your preference, a broken hole in the ground forever? I thought there was no debt according to the Mayor?
Well....when I say house, I mean it was really just a small hall in the ground...covered by a twig, but it was a house to us.
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