Madison Property Taxes up more than 4%

Wisconsin State Journal Editorial:

A snowflake is small. But a blizzard of snowflakes can bury a house.

You can view your looming property tax bill in similar ways.

A single tax increase by one local unit of government might seem negligible.

Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk, for example, is proposing a $38 increase on the county's portion of the average local property tax bill in Madison for 2010. That's an increase of only a few dollars a month.

But that $38 represents a 6.5 percent increase at a time when most people's wages are relatively flat or falling. And that $38 pushes the county's portion of the average property tax bill in Madison to $626.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at October 12, 2009 1:00 AM
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