{"id":178,"date":"2017-05-30T00:46:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T07:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taxedintempe.com\/?p=178"},"modified":"2017-05-30T14:49:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T21:49:27","slug":"truth-in-taxation-on-june-8th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taxedintempe.com\/truth-in-taxation-on-june-8th\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Truth in Taxation&#8221; on June 8th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a reader from Tempe who sent us a few clippings from newspapers dated 5-25-17 about a pending tax increase for Tempe homeowners.\u00a0 Good job, Council.\u00a0 All those new apartments everywhere provide living quarters for lots more people who won&#8217;t be paying property taxes but are a drain on the city.\u00a0 No problem, the homeowners will foot the bill.<\/p>\n<p>Since there is a state law called &#8220;Truth in Taxation&#8221;, see how\u00a0easy it is to understand\u00a0these clippings.\u00a0 This one says the overall levy will increase taxes by 2.1%<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/taxedintempe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2.1-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-184\" src=\"https:\/\/taxedintempe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2.1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1195\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taxedintempe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2.1-1.png 1195w, https:\/\/taxedintempe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2.1-1-300x94.png 300w, https:\/\/taxedintempe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2.1-1-768x241.png 768w, https:\/\/taxedintempe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2.1-1-1024x321.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1195px) 100vw, 1195px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This notice says the increase is 2.0%.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-180\" src=\"https:\/\/taxedintempe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tax-notice.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taxedintempe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tax-notice.png 293w, https:\/\/taxedintempe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tax-notice-136x300.png 136w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/>Which is it?\u00a0 Or is it both?\u00a0 How can this comply with &#8220;truth in taxation&#8221; when the numbers are not identical?\u00a0 If the tax lingo is intentionally written to confuse people, that is not truthful, at least the private sector doesn&#8217;t believe so.\u00a0 If you go to a grocery store and are told an item has a couple different costs, but the explanation doesn&#8217;t make sense, you shop elsewhere.\u00a0 Governments know we have no alternatives, so they speak a different language, because they can.<\/p>\n<p>Is this tax increase being used to cover free nursery school, the library grounds makeover, or the mysterious bikes in front of the library that the taxpayers paid for and are collecting dust?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/taxedintempe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/grid-bikes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-194\" src=\"https:\/\/taxedintempe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/grid-bikes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3264\" height=\"1836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taxedintempe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/grid-bikes.jpg 3264w, https:\/\/taxedintempe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/grid-bikes-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/taxedintempe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/grid-bikes-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/taxedintempe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/grid-bikes-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aren&#8217;t these bikes cute? \u00a0Stay tuned to TaxedInTempe.com, we will have more on these bikes in the future. The bottom line is Tempe Council should not get a thumbs-up on any tax increase.\u00a0 Pay them a visit on June 8th at 6PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a reader from Tempe who sent us a few clippings from newspapers dated 5-25-17 about a pending tax increase for Tempe homeowners.\u00a0 Good job, Council.\u00a0 All those new apartments everywhere provide living quarters for lots more people who won&#8217;t be paying property taxes but are a drain on the city.\u00a0 No problem, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[22,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxedintempe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxedintempe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxedintempe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxedintempe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxedintempe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/taxedintempe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/taxedintempe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxedintempe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxedintempe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxedintempe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}