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Our 2 cents: Mayor's tax plan is a good start
MayorStephanie Rawlings-Blakehas taken a bold step forward to alleviate Baltimore City's painfully high residential property tax rate. In the face of very difficult economic and budgetary conditions, she has introduced the Targeted Homeowners' Tax...
Tags: Business, Credit and Debt, Montgomery County (Maryland), Finance, Local Government
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Aberdeen council approves $12.4 million budget
The Aberdeen City Council passed a $12.4 million operating budget for the 2013 fiscal year beginning July 1 at Monday's council meeting. The new budget keeps the same city tax rates and fees and reduces spending by 28 percent below the 2012 budget. The...
Tags: Aberdeen, Chicago Housing Authority, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Section 8 (housing), Budgets and Budgeting
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Bel Air town employees to get raises under new budget; light funded for Gateway and Boulton
Bel Air's town employees will get a 3 percent raise in July and residents of English Country Manor should soon get their long sought traffic light at Gateway Drive and Boulton Street under the 2013 town budget that received final approval from the Board...
Tags: The Muppets (movie), Best Buy Company Inc., Credit and Debt, Finance, Budgets and Budgeting
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City's spending priorities are skewed
Let's be honest and place Baltimore City's budgeting and spending problems into proper context. The lavish spending of public funds to fix up the offices of Jerome Oberlton, chief information officer for Baltimore City schools, is really nothing new....
Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, Juvenile Delinquency, Jack Hill, Prisons
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Special tax deals unfair
The 15-year real estate tax abatement for the Superblock in West Baltimore raises important policy issues that need to be addressed. Specifically, should the city — and in certain cases, the state — grant economic incentives for real estate...Tags: Realty, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Rentals, Real Estate, Sun Trust Building
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City to cut budget 28 percent
Aberdeen unveiled a proposed $12.4 million operating budget for fiscal year 2013 at Monday night's city council meeting that not only holds the line on taxes, but also cuts spending by a surprising 28 percent. The budget was one of several important...Tags: Harford County, Port Deposit, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Government, Public Officials
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Baltimore's tax diet
Those who wish to lose weight — and with summer swim season around the corner that's probably most of us — know that there are two easy ways to sabotage one's diet and exercise program. The first is to try to do too much all at once and fail,...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Mary Pat Clarke, Taxation
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Superblock: Making the math work
Baltimore MayorStephanie Rawlings-Blakeis asking the City Council to grant generous property tax breaks for the developers of the long-stalled Superblock project on the west side of downtown, calling it a linchpin of her long-term strategy to grow the...
Tags: Business, Baltimore Development Corporation, Carl Stokes
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At pricey condos, developers pay just hundreds in tax
They're some of the priciest condos in the city, but they're taxed like empty lots.
At the Ritz-Carlton Residences along Baltimore's Inner Harbor — where a recent sale topped $1.5 million — the tax bill for most of the condos was $1,309...Tags: William H. Cole IV, Silo Point, Carl Stokes, Patrick Turner, Patterson Park
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The money that slipped away
Baltimore's property tax rate is high (that's one thing that everyone that owns a home or business in the city can agree on) so nothing makes the blood boil quite like news that someone has successfully avoided paying their fair share — except,...
Tags: Silo Point, Luxury Goods Industry, Taxation
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Havre de Grace candidates debate city topics
Candidates for the Havre de Grace City Council agreed on most issues during their two debates Tuesday and Wednesday. The Tuesday event, sponsored by Ontario-Otsego Positive Action Committee, drew 30 to 40 people to St. Patrick Hall, as well as six of the...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Local Elections, Business, Havre de Grace, Elections
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City Council OKs Rawlings-Blake's property tax cut plan
The Baltimore SunThe City Council on Monday approved Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's property tax reduction plan, which relies on projected revenue from gambling. “I want to thank Council President Bernard ‘Jack’ Young and members of the City Council...Tags: Prince George's County, Casino and Gambling Industry, Taxation
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