Property Tax

Beginning this week, Maryland's Department of Assessments and Taxation can begin penalizing homeowners who received a homestead credit this year as a result of deception. Penalties will be issued on an ad hoc basis as the department learns of violators,...

Candidates apply their cunning and resources to introducing you to their opponents. The next five weeks will feature heavy doses of ominous music and grainy photos on your television screen. The truth faces mighty obstacles on its journey to you....

Leesburg residents who worked so diligently to get city commissioners to reduce their taxes got snookered this week. City commissioners were poised to raise property taxes above the rate that would have brought in the same amount as the previous year and...

The deadline to apply for a property tax credit that, on average, cuts more than $1,000 off a homeowner's tax bill, has been extended until the end of October. Maryland residents can apply for the Homeowners’ Property Tax Credit through October 31,...

Governor Mitch Daniels joined executives from RACO, a division of Hubbell Incorporated (NYSE: HUBB and HUBA), Wednesday to announce the company's plans to relocate its distribution center from South Holland, Ill. to here, creating up to 77 new jobs by...

The house wasn't much to look at. Its windows were old and leaky, and the paint was flaking so badly there were spots that were stripped clean. And the lawn was overgrown. "It looked like a condemned property," said Mark Hosty. But the dilapidated...

Supervisors told Paint Township residents Tuesday to expect a 75 percent property tax increase in 2013.   The 3:30 p.m. meeting, normally attended by just a handful of people, drew a crowd of about 50 residents seeking explanations for the township's...

The Winchester Board of Commissioners voted to approve a modest increase to the property tax rate in its regular meeting Tuesday. The tax rate for 2012 will be set at 14.6 cents per $100 of assessed value, up from a rate of 14.5 cents per $100 in 2011....

The property tax rate in Wilmore this year could be 13.1 percent higher than it was in 2010, with much of the increase compensating for lower property values. The city council approved the first reading of the most recent increase by a 5-1 vote Monday...

SOUTH BEND – South Bend’s tallest building is apparently closer to new ownership while it continues to be plagued with financial problems. The Chase Tower narrowly avoided the auction block Tuesday when the county treasurer received a check in...

Sen. Tom Casperson, R-Escanaba, is peeling the lid off a can worms with a plan to order your local nature conservancy to open its privately owned fragile and protected lands to any and all public uses -- or to pay property taxes on its holdings. Yes,...

The Elmhurst City Council has given the green light to establishing the city's fourth tax-increment-financing district on North York Street. The council approved the district in an 11-1 vote Sept. 4. The district will extend along a narrow corridor on...