Texas had been funding its schools through local property taxes, an arrangement courts found problematic.
Both are exempt from income taxes, sales taxes and in many cases local property taxes.
Local property taxes are deductible from your federal taxes for all of your residences.
They've also halted work on some new construction projects, depressing the local property market still further.
The plan would stabilize local property values and simultaneously remove bad loans from bank balance sheets.
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Like all municipalities in New Hampshire, Lincoln funds its own school system through local property taxes.
The charge would be renamed the "local property levy" and updated according to changing property values every year.
But local property developer Simon Morris and Duncan Revie, son of former manager Don, have lodged an interest.
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Most emasculating of all, less than 10% of the money London's mayor spends comes from local property taxes.
Honey Isham, a local property agent, says her business is inching up again as bargain-hunters look for cheap property.
State and Local Taxes: The big ticket items here are state income tax and local property tax deductions.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index also finished 0.3% higher at 22619.18, though there were declines in local property developers.
We have something of a precedent for that here, your local property taxes.
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California's Proposition 13, for example, a 1978 initiative lowering local property taxes, set off a tax revolt across America.
Falling state aid and dwindling local property taxes have only reinforced the trend.
Exemption from local property taxes can be much more challenging than qualification as a 501(c)(3) organization under the Internal Revenue Code.
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Section 107(1) gave incentives for churches to own real estate and to exclude those residences from the local property tax rolls.
Altos calculated the median asking price for single-family homes and condominiums, weighting the price based on the mix of local property types.
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The declining profitability of Hong Kong property is pushing local property developers to find new businesses - productive ways to use financial strength.
If you were Indonesian, Korean or Thai and had invested in gold instead of local property or shares, you would be sitting pretty.
New IT and internet firms continue to gather there in spite of the high prices of local property and the danger of earthquakes.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Democratic leaders in the state assembly have agreed on a proposal to cap local property taxes.
School districts have less leeway in Michigan than elsewhere since state taxes largely replaced local property taxes as the source of the schools' money.
Its profit is what's left of this rent after its property managers, janitors, lighting companies, debt collectors and local property tax collectors take their cut.
The Daily Telegraph reported in December 2010 that Twitter had chosen London, after finding out that executives had been meeting with local property agents there.
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And when it comes to specific solutions, about 80 percent of those surveyed said the money should come from local property taxes, not federal or state income taxes.
Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi has promised to abolish an unpopular local property tax if his party wins the 24-25 February elections - and to refund last year's payments in cash.
And because Illinois is dependent, like many states, on local property taxes to pay for its schools, wealthy districts spend nearly four times as much per student as the poorest districts.
It urged ministers to support the authorities in developing nations to improve the collection rates of income tax, VAT and local property taxes and to ensure governing elites paid their fair share.
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