About Me: Paige is a reporter at the Florida Capital Bureau.
The early bird on property taxes...
Decorum prevents House Speaker Marco Rubio from pushing new property
tax cuts when he's supposedly agreed to Senate President Ken Pruitt's
demand for a special session focused on rebalancing the state budget.
tax cuts when he's supposedly agreed to Senate President Ken Pruitt's
demand for a special session focused on rebalancing the state budget.
But he can't seem to help himself.
Property taxes, after all, are what the speaker says are to blame for
Florida's stagnating economy and listing sales tax collections.
To get ready for a second October special session, the speaker has
assembled a 20-page synopsis of 18 property tax cut plans, including a
new one dated last week that limits property taxes to 2 percent of the
value of a home, caps those taxes to 5 percent of the income of
low-income seniors, and raises state sales taxes by a penny to plug the
hole in local school district budgets.
Read the document here... taxsummaries.pdf
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