Property Tax in Dutchess County

On August 24, 2015, Pawling School District Assistant Superintendent for Finance Neysa Sensenig presented 2015-2016 Tax Rates to the school...

This third of three posts on the Pawling School District describes the immediate cause of the 2014 tax apportionment mistake by the Pawling...

This second of three posts on the Pawling School District (I'd originally hoped to complete this topic in two posts) describes how the ...

This first of two posts on the Pawling School District presents the recent history of the District's property taxes. A subsequent post w...

In April of 2011, I posted a series of articles comparing the tax rates of all school districts in Dutchess County. On April 28, 2011, I con...

On October 4, 2012, I predicted  in this space that the 2013 Dutchess County Government property tax rate would probably be the highest it h...

Your devoted blogger resigned as Fairview Fire Commissioner on December 31, 2014, after serving two years of a 5-year term. My resignation w...

This post was originally published on December 15, 2012 at 7:40 PM, but has been updated three times, as indicated below. In a remarkable...

I've been meaning to write this frivolous post for a long time. Now's the time. No, it's not a belated April fools joke. The F...

Property tax in New York State is fundamentally based on current market value. But this simple fact is obscured by New York’s convoluted mu...

When it comes to understanding how property taxes work, it is amazing how many government officials who should know better get it wrong. The...

Five years after the 2008 global economic meltdown, the effects are still being felt here in Dutchess County. Property values are continuing...