Florida Municipal and County Ad Valorem Tax Cap Amendment (2008)

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The Municipal and County Ad valorem Tax Cap is an initiated constitutional amendment in Florida that limits the power of local government to raise revenue from the ad valorem taxes - no county or municipality shall levy ad valorem taxes on more than: 30 percent of the assessed value of any homestead property eligible for additional exemption for certain seniors; 40 percent of the assessed value of all other homestead property; or 50 percent of the assessed value of all non-homestead real property.[1]

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Support

Citizens for Property Tax Reform, Inc. is the political action committee sponsoring the initiative. The currently consists of three people. The groups has spent $54,000 promoting the amendment.[2]

"This is too critical an issue for us to sit back and watch it get diluted through Tallahassee's sausage-making legislative process, where what comes out is unrecognizable from what went in at the beginning, " said Bernie Navarro, head of Citizens for Property Tax Reform.[3]

Opposition

The Attorney General wrote an opinion stating that he believes the amendment would violate the Florida Constitution.[4]

Status

This petition has been approved by the Florida Secretary of State and is currently being circulated.

See also

External links

References

  1. ↑ Municipal and County Ad valorem Tax Cap Petition with full text
  2. ↑ Citizens for Property Tax Reform, Inc. finance activity
  3. ↑ Property tax anger sparks petition drive, St. Petersburg Times, May 24, 2007
  4. ↑ Attorney General Opinion, AGO 2001-04
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