By Steve Plunkett
The Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District will spend up to $10,000 to get copies of public records from the city for its fight to stop sending millions of dollars each year to the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency.
Briann H
By Steve Plunkett and Mary Hladky
The City Council’s decision to keep channeling property taxes into downtown redevelopment until the year 2042 may wind up creating a $60 million hole in the rest of Boca Raton’s budget.
The Greater Boca Raton Beach a
By Mary Hladky
The city’s tax rate will hold steady for the fiscal year that starts on Oct. 1, in keeping with City Council members’ longstanding emphasis on keeping the rate low.
The rate they unanimously approved on Sept. 19 is $3.68 per $1,000 of t
By Steve Plunkett
Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District commissioners set a tentative property tax rate that is 15% higher than the rollback rate, but assured taxpayers they will trim the rate in September to an 11.8% increase.
The current rate i
By Steve Plunkett
After weathering a firestorm of protests against a hefty tax hike proposed last year, Beach & Park District officials chose the rollback rate for no change in property taxes for the coming fiscal year.
“We’re going to be probably st
By Rich Pollack
While some communities are facing financial shortfalls and need to increase revenue for the coming budget year, Highland Beach will hold the line on its tax rate while anticipating only a small tap into reserve funds.
Faced with a bud
By Mary Hladky
Boca Raton’s property tax rate will remain unchanged from last year.
City Council members unanimously approved a rate of $3.6787 per $1,000 of taxable property value on Sept. 23.
Although the rate stays the same, it amounts to a 4.2% i
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach property owners are likely to see a very slight increase in their municipal taxes as town commissioners move closer to finalizing their fiscal 2020 budget.
During an Aug. 29 meeting, commissioners agreed to tentatively
The numbers are in: Crime | Property Values
By Mary Hladky
Federal tax law changes in 2017 are persuading more people to flee high-tax states like New York and relocate to lower taxing Florida.
U.S. Census Bureau estimates show Florida’s population
By Steve Plunkett
City residents will see fractional decreases in property tax rates but will pay slightly higher tax bills if tentative rates win final approval.
City Manager Leif Ahnell advised City Council members to set the tentative property tax
By Rich Pollack
Faced with a probable 8.6 percent increase in fees for fire service provided by a neighboring community, Highland Beach commissioners set a tentative maximum operating tax rate of $3.12 per $1,000 of assessed value, slightly higher t
By Mary Thurwachter
The tide is turning in Lantana, where the tax rate has remained at $3.24 per $1,000 of taxable value for 10 years. At its July 10 meeting, the Town Council set the proposed rate for 2017-2018 at $3.50.
The lone dissenter in
By Tao Woolfe
The Palm Beach County property appraiser's staff is still crunching numbers, so the specific municipal increases in property taxes for 2015 are not yet available. But Property Appraiser Gary R. Nikolits, spoke about the general upwards
Boca Raton officials approved a $136 million general fund budget during a final Sept. 18 budget hearing, setting the property tax rate for 2014-15 at $3.71 per $1,000 of taxable property value.
Property values have increased 5.63 percent in Boca R
By Cheryl Blackerby
The Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District adopted a proposed tax rate of .97 for every $1,000 of assessed value for 2014-15, the same rate as last year, at the district’s meeting July 21. Only property owners with a keen e
By Tim O’Meilia
Budget managers in eight of nine South County coastal communities can exhale.
Taxable real estate values — the stuff property taxes are made of — continues to creep back toward pre-recession levels.
Taxable property values i
By Tim Pallesen
County and municipal officials are warning voters to brace for higher property taxes if they approve tax breaks for homes that don’t have tax exemptions now.
Amendment Four on the Nov. 6 ballot would give property tax exemptions
By Tim Pallesen
County and municipal officials are warning voters to brace for higher property taxes if they approve tax breaks for homes that don’t have tax exemptions now.
Amendment Four on the Nov. 6 ballot would give property tax exemptions to s
By Tim Pallesen
Delray Beach commissioners have dipped into reserves to prevent an increase in the city property tax rate.
The decision prevents job cuts or a fire fee to make up for a $4 million shortfall in the city’s $97 million proposed operatin
By Tim O’Meilia
Imagine unmanned drones patrolling the Manalapan shoreline or helium-filled balloons surveilling the beach or infra-red cameras spying north and south after dark along the oceanfront. However fantastic and unlikely — except perhaps
