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| Palm Beach County Commission continues push for 1 cent sales tax for fire-rescue service |
| Wednesday, June 9, 2010 |
| WEST PALM BEACH — Palm Beach County commissioners Tuesday said they will to continue to push for a sales tax hike to help pay for fire-rescue services, despite a room full of angry residents who said they simply can't afford it.
The commission voted 4-3 in favor of asking voters in November to increase the sales tax by 1 percent to help cover the mounting |
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| Palm Beach County faces 13 percent property tax rate increase |
| Wednesday, June 9, 2010 |
| Palm Beach County property owners for the second year in a row face the possibility of a double-digit tax rate increase to head off a looming budget shortfall.
The county's proposed tax rate would go up about 13 percent — just one year after a nearly 15 percent tax rate boost — to help cover a $100 million projected shortfall, according to the county's |
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| Palm Beach County Commission preserves bid for sales tax increase |
| Wednesday, June 9, 2010 |
| Despite growing opposition from business leaders and community groups, Palm Beach County commissioners on Tuesday kept alive a proposed bid to put a sales tax increase for emergency services on the November ballot. The commission voted 4-3 against scrapping the proposed 1 percent sales tax increase. It returns to the commission on June 15 and would still |
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| Palm Beach County's proposed fire-rescue sales tax increase dead for this year |
| Wednesday, June 9, 2010 |
| WEST PALM BEACH — The plan to increase Palm Beach County's sales tax by 1 percent to help pay for fire-rescue service came to an abrupt halt Wednesday, after county administrators concluded there were too many unanswered questions about the new state law making the increase possible.
Changes may be needed to clear up lingering questions about the law, |
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| Fire-rescue sales tax won't be on Palm Beach County ballot for now |
| Wednesday, June 9, 2010 |
| Palm Beach County officials on Wednesday pulled an about-face and scrapped plans to push for a sales tax increase intended to help pay for emergency services.
The county once planned to ask voters to approve a 1 percent sales tax increase to help pay for firefighters costs.
Despite opposition from business leaders and community groups to boosting the |
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| Palm Beach County Administrator wants 13.4 percent increase in property tax rate |
| Tuesday, June 8, 2010 |
| WEST PALM BEACH — Palm Beach County Administrator Bob Weisman recommended a 13.4 percent hike in the county's property tax rate Tuesday to help make up the government's loss of revenue caused by plummeting property values.
Even with the increase, administrators expect to have to hack away at county services.
Due to suffer: Belle Glade and West Palm |
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| Public hot over new fire tax: Case that never was strong is beginning to weaken. |
| Tuesday, June 8, 2010 |
| Speaker after speaker rose Tuesday to blast the Palm Beach County Commission's ill-conceived push for a referendum on raising the sales tax 1 percent to pay for fire-rescue services. The opposition was broad-based, from tea partiers to retailers to hoteliers, along with representatives of business groups and the town of Palm Beach. All are correctly |
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| Cities should reject fire tax: Palm Beach County proposal already in trouble. |
| Sunday, May 16, 2010 |
| Palm Beach County firefighters suffered a setback last week when they ran out of time to slip a poorly conceived tax shift past voters in the lower-turnout August primary election. The proposal, now pegged to the November general election, shouldn't make the ballot at all.
The firefighters union calls the proposal a tax shift, under which voters would |
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