Senate Republicans haven’t taken up a House bill that would close a property tax loophole because they want to address local taxation policy more broadly, Senate leader Phil Berger says. “We’ve got members who are looking at that,” he said of House Bill 1042, which has been parked in Senate Rules since coming over from […]
Gov. Josh Stein has signed into law a one-year moratorium on the use of the new-for-2026 valuation updates Guilford County and a few other counties were intending to use to assess property taxes. Stein says Senate Bill 889 “provides tax relief for North Carolinians who are feeling pain in their pocketbooks,” though it “is not our […]
Now that the calendar has turned to June, it’s about time for cities and counties across to start passing their budgets. Along with those, in many places, will come raises for police, firefighters and other local-government workers. In some way, shape or form, personnel costs are invariably one of the key cost drivers of budgets […]
It was a bit eye-catching earlier this month when the Locke Foundation, advocating for a levy limit on property taxes, said the biggest increase in the local tax burden over the past decade occurred in ruby-red Cabarrus County. As this is not what people generally think happens in Republican-run counties, I opted to take a […]
Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, says he’s going to file a bill in April that would “halt all property tax revaluation changes for 12 months” while legislators study broader changes to local-government tax law. Announced on Friday, the proposal would interrupt the property valuation cycles of Guilford County and other counties across the state that […]
The House’s property-tax committee is scrutinizing the tax breaks North Carolina gives its nonprofit hospitals, but a couple of its rank-and-file members are speaking up against the idea of making major changes. Legislative staffers on Wednesday told the panel the property and sales-tax breaks the hospitals receive cost city and county governments across the state a […]
Rep. Erin Paré, R-Wake, a co-chair of the House select committee on property taxes, has been hammering local governments in her county for letting their tax burdens rise. Recent Twitter posts from Paré have singled out tax increases affecting residents of Zebulon and Wendell, eastern Wake suburbs that aren’t in her district. She also criticized […]
Senate leader Phil Berger is following House Speaker Destin Hall in setting up a select committee to deal with rising property tax rates. Unlike Hall, Berger has decided that the Senate’s review won’t be bipartisan. His office announced the appointment Tuesday of an all-Republican panel to conduct the Senate’s review. Its members include Senate Majority […]
House Speaker Destin Hall’s property tax committee may embark on a side quest, as it’s hearing complaints about a court-opened loophole that can allow some apartment-complex owners to claim an exemption from local taxation. The concern comes from the N.C. Association of County Commissioners and the Self-Help Credit Union and concerns the fallout of a […]
House Speaker Destin Hall’s marching orders to the legislators he’s assigned to review North Carolina’s property tax system raise the possibility of amending the state constitution to provide relief to taxpayers. That includes looking at the Constitution’s “uniformity requirement,” which is commonly read to mean that all types of property — land, homes, cars, business […]
House Speaker Destin Hall has formed a special committee to examine and counter the rise in local-government property taxes. Reps. Julia Howard, R-Davie, Erin Paré, R-Wake, and Mitchell Setzer, R-Catawba, will co-chair the House Select Committee on Property Tax Reduction and Reform. The idea, Hall’s office says, is to “develop recommendations and potential legislation” ahead […]
