Taxpayer Action Network

Jupiter council raises tax rate to cover rising expenses
Posted 09/22/09

Next year's tax rate goes from $2.42 to $2.51 for each $1,000 in taxable property value. Next year's budget is $73.3 million, down 4 percent ... (read more...)

Police, firefighters crowd West Palm Beach budget hearing; commission raises tax rate
Posted 09/22/09

Now the real work begins. The commission still has to negotiate with its workers' unions and cut $7 million more from the budget to ... (read more...)

Your Property Taxes Could Be Going Up
Posted 09/21/09

All Homeowners in Palm Beach County will be paying more in property taxes next year. How much more? The tax rate is ... (read more...)

West Palm Beach tax vote to hit home
Posted 09/19/09

Count Barbara Glass among the 68 percent of West Palm Beach residents who likely will pay less in property taxes in 2010 than ... (read more...)

Most cities will raise their tax rates for next year
Posted 08/17/09

Hal Valeche has led an anti-tax-increase campaign that swamped county commissioners' with e-mailed objections. "I don't see any reason to defer ... (read more...)

Palm Beach County proposes raising property taxes as much as 15 percent
Posted 08/08/09

Broward and Palm Beach counties are taking different paths to deal with similar budget crunches blamed on (read more...)

West Palm Beach's tax proposal maintains call for 16 percent rate hike
Posted 07/21/09

Despite growing concerns from business leaders and residents, Palm Beach County commissioners Tuesday agreed to move (read more...)

14.9 percent tax-rate hike gets tentative approval in Palm Beach County
Posted 07/21/09

Despite growing concerns from business leaders and residents, Palm Beach County commissioners Tuesday agreed to move (read more...)

Palm Beach County Commission moves ahead with proposed property tax increase
Posted 07/21/09

Despite growing concerns from business leaders and residents, Palm Beach County commissioners Tuesday agreed to move (read more...)

Palm Beach Gardens sets its maximum tax rate
Posted 07/20/09

City commissioners voted to tentatively increase the property tax rate by about 2.7 percent, according to (read more...)

Homesteaders got no tax break during boom years
Posted 07/02/09

We are approaching the time when local governments set their tax rates for the budget year starting Oct. 1, and I want to (read more...)

Tax-rate hike on Palm Beach County menu
Posted 06/27/09

Back when real estate values were soaring, Palm Beach County commissioners routinely took credit for reducing or holding the (read more...)

Gaping budget hole expected next year as real estate values continue to slide
Posted 06/26/09

Palm Beach County's real estate values will continue to fall next year by 10 percent or more, say county leaders, who estimate (read more...)

The Cap and Tax Fiction
Posted 06/25/09

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has put cap-and-trade legislation on a forced march through the House, and the bill may (read more...)

Palm Beach property tax rate likely to rise, Town Council says
Posted 06/18/09

A 3.4 percent drop in average taxable property values apparently won't translate into a tax cut for (read more...)

Hurricane headed our way all right - in the form of higher taxes; that'll be the only way to pay for government's spending excess
Posted 06/18/09

Floridians who are concerned about the coming storm season should also be keeping a lookout for an equally dangerous threat (read more...)

Aaronson: No apology to Tea Party crowd at commission meeting
Posted 06/17/09

About 50 members of the anti-tax Tea Party movement showed up for this morning's Palm Beach County Commission meeting after (read more...)

New Property Tax Shock
Posted 06/07/09

FA lot of Floridians need to prepare themselves: The tax relief equilibrium has swung. (read more...)

Palm Beach County property owners may have to pay up to 15 percent more in taxes
Posted 06/04/09

Palm Beach County commissioner will be asked Monday to consider increasing the county's property tax rate by even more than (read more...)

Tea Party the June 16 County Commission Meeting
Posted 05/29/09

Please mark your calendars for June 16 for the Tea Party Protest at the County Commission Meeting. We need (read more...)

A Rising Anti-Government Tide
Posted 05/22/09

Americans should look carefully at the anti-politician, anti-government mood exhibited in California this week. Just as Proposition 13 and (read more...)