City Councilman Frank DiCicco called on Mayor Nutter and the Board of Revision of Taxes to include properties assessed this year in a citywide freeze.
Nutter announced this week that the BRT would not hike an assessments until his administration was confident that those property values were accurate. But not part of that moratorium were properties reassessed this year, some of which saw large increases that equate with a higher property tax bill. Those reassessments were done using the same allegedly unreliable information that was the basis for the decision by the BRT's new executive director, Richard Negrin.
DiCicco said he understood that Nutter had to draw the line somewhere, and he would not extend the freeze back to 2008. "I think that's only in the interest of fairness to the taxpayers," DiCicco told fellow council members in caucus before Thursday morning's council meeting. Council President Anna C. Verna said she agreed with DiCicco.
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"[W]ould not hike any assessments," you mean?— CleanupPhilly- There's a lot that the BRT can do now that doesn't involve hiking the assessments because of putting in real market values. Property tax exemptions on former nonprofits that still hold property need to be removed. Senior freezes on properties where the senior is dead (there are several in my neighborhood) need to be removed, and reliable system using death notices and neighborhood reporting needs to be put in place now. Properties that did new renovation without permits should be part of the new properties that are assessed. There is no reason to ignore all the properties on the block when a new property is built just to wait two arbitrary years, if it is obvious that all of the properties have been renovated, just not all with permits. We have to start fixing this a little bit everyday.— CleanupPhilly
- Schools get 60% of the property tax dollar collected, so we have a moral imperative to get this money to the schools in a way that is reasonable. We have an ethical duty not to just keep putting this off and putting this off.— CleanupPhilly
- Cphilly, you just don't get it. you must be one of those want the cake and eat the cake girls. Nutter and Council have to get it right -- the system of assessing and the specifics of each property. this is going to take time. It has nothing to do with waiting "two arbitrary years." Let them take the time to get it right ... once and for all. Fixing it a little bit each day was what Glancey tried to do or at least said he was doing.— Pangloss
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