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Fairfax County follows suit - Raises Taxes Rate for Fiscal 2009

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Yesterday, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors tentatively approved a $3.3 billion spending plan for fiscal 2009 that raised the property tax rate 3 cents, to 92 cents, per $100 of assessed value. The average home assessment declined from $542,400 to $524,100, and the average tax bill is projected to drop about $6, to $4,822. [...]

Please ignore the strings attached to the puppet! - Do you really believe this explanation?

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

The Reston Connection ran an article and correction titled “Relying on Real Esate”. In the original article, Tim Shirocky, assistant director of the county’s Residential Property, Real Estate Division explained how much of the counties budget was dependent upon the real estate assesments. Fair Enough, but it is the next section that [...]

Fairfax City Council approves budget

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Fairfax City Council voted to approve its annual budget totally roughly $128 million, of which $116 million is dedicated to a general fund.
With its approval of the budget, the council set the real estate tax rate at 79 cents for every $100 of assessed property value, up from 72 cents for the current fiscal year. [...]