Post Tagged with: "Property Taxes"
VTV To Air Town Council Meeting
Jim Thomas, who runs Verona’s community television channel programming, was out of town last week when the Town Council meeting was met with an overflow crowd protesting the rise in taxes. He’s back now and the video from the meeting will be up on VTV tonight–and every night this week–at 7 p.m. Thomas normally programs [...]
Property Tax Break For Seniors Extended
If you, or a senior citizen that you know, participates in New Jersey’s “Senior Freeze” property tax program and missed the June 1 filing deadline, you’re in luck: The state has extended the filing deadline until August 2. The Freeze is a separate program from the state’s byzantine property tax rebate effort, which was given [...]
Verona’s Tea Party?
Verona’s Town Council probably should have chosen a larger venue for Monday’s meeting. While attendees at previous council meetings on the budget generally had plenty of room to stretch out, last night, more than five dozen people packed the room and spilled out into the hallway and down the stairs into the lobby. They weren’t [...]
Property Taxes On Town Council Agenda Tonight
You’ve probably figured out by now that you can’t just multiply your third-quarter tax bill by four to get your total property tax tab for the year. But if the tax math still mystifies you, you might want to attend the Verona Township Council meeting tonight, July 12. There will be an extensive presentation on [...]
More Bad News For Montclair
Bad news if you’re a homeowner there, that is. Baristanet is reporting that Montclair is among 13 towns in New Jersey that yesterday were granted the right to exceed the 2.5% spending cap sought by Gov. Chris Christie. Exceed it it will: Montclair residents will be hit with a 10% tax increase under the town’s [...]
Governor’s Budget: Slash, Burn And Cap
The party’s over for government spending in New Jersey. The budget proposal unveiled today by Gov. Chris Christie to close New Jersey’s $10.9 budget seeks substantial cuts and belt-tightening from every corner of the state. Property tax rebate checks would be relegated to the history books and annual property tax increases would be capped at [...]
Lawmaker Seeks Easier Property Tax Appeals
It may be of no comfort now to the Verona residents who got slammed in the revaluation, but a south Jersey lawmaker plans to introduce a bill to make the tax appeal process easier–or at least easier to start. According to NewJerseyNewsroom.com, the bill that Assemblyman Domenick DiCicco (R-Gloucester) will unveil in early February will [...]
Hilltop Housing Won’t Be Age-Restricted
Cenrose, the real estate company currently developing a 24-acre Hilltop parcel in Verona, will not build the age-restricted units specified in the Hilltop development plan, according to township manager Joseph Martin. The reason for the change, he says, is that the market for age-restricted housing is “saturated or moribund.” The development company, a joint venture [...]
The Reval Numbers Are Here
Many Verona residents had something else to digest with their Thanksgiving leftovers this year: The re-appraised value of their property. There it was, in big bold-face type smack in the middle of the letters, sent by Appraisal Systems Inc. following months of revaluation work ordered by the Essex County Board of Taxation. But are the [...]