BERLIN – After hours of discussion and four failed votes, Berlin’s elected officials approved a one-and-a-half cent tax increase this week.
On Monday, the Berlin Town Council voted 4-1 to approve a tax rate of $.815 per $100 of assessed property valuation The decision, which will equate to a $45 increase for someone with a home assessed at $300,000, came after the town’s department heads said the flat $.80 rate Mayor Zack Tyndall proposed would not fund the town’s needs.
“This balanced budget you’re seeing tonight that’s entailed with an 80-cent tax rate is balanced on the backs of the employees,” Planning Director Dave Engelhart said.
Tyndall opened Monday’s public hearing on the tax rate with comments on his draft general fund budget. Though the proposed spending plan featured a deficit of $130,000 when he initially introduced the rate of $.80 per $100 of assessed value in early March, Tyndall said he’d spent the past two weeks balancing the $6.7 million budget.
Hold Up a minute
I figure Y’all don’ts farm no more
der be plenty of room for Section 8 housing in Berlin
Thinks about all da money President Haris/Biden would gives Berlin
to put in housing for those who don’ts work .
So, the value of property goes up every year leading to higher tax payments, but these blood suckers want a larger percent of the take. Disgusting thieves and bastards!
Keep chasin what u thought u lost last year. Better fiscal mgmt makes all happy. Not trying to make all happy. That just digs the hole deeper, all are unhappy and u are out come election time.
I never could figure out how Maryland got their nickname as “the free state”. Most of us don’t really want to know how/why.