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Old 12-29-2020, 12:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Dilligas View Post
If you roll back the 2019 millage rate tax increase, then the last 10 years of no or very little increases (& decreases) will be assessed and small annual increases every year will be retroactively assessed. We have been and are still one of the lowest rate counties in Florida.
Remember that as your assessment has gone up, your (and the County's revenue) has tax increased over what it would have been without the reassessment. The addition of new taxable building plus increased valuations should have removed the need for a tax increase.

The 25% increase was enacted by the Developer's puppet Commissioners for ONE reason: to preserve the Developer's sweetheart impact fee at our expense.