{"id":4051,"date":"2011-09-21T20:50:38","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T01:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4051"},"modified":"2011-09-21T20:57:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T01:57:28","slug":"a-useful-article-on-how-school-operating-levies-are-levied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4051","title":{"rendered":"A useful article on how school operating levies are levied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend sent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eotfocus.com\/event\/article\/id\/18892\/group\/homepage\/\">this story<\/a> to me about the Perham School district&#8217;s levy referendum. Its mostly correct and I suspect much of what it says is based on state laws and would relate to Duluth as well. <\/p>\n<p>It mentions that some kinds of &#8220;post secondary residential&#8221; properties are not taxed. If that&#8217;s so I&#8217;d be curious to know if that is a statewide exception or one that only applies to Ottertail County. Duluth has a lot of housing that might be described that way. I presume that single family homes that have become rental residences would be subject to school operating levies although only at the lower homesteaded rate (as second homes.) I&#8217;d guess a lot of the Duluth housing along Rice Lake Road for college kids might be exempt but I don&#8217;t know for certain. Sorry, I&#8217;m not going to research it.<\/p>\n<p>The story did get one thing wrong. I wrongly presumed that this explanation covered a &#8220;progressive tax.&#8221; It doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Perham-Dent levy would cost $105 per year for properties worth $100,000, with that amount progressively rising as the market values increase \u00e2\u20ac\u201c up to $948 per year for a $900,000 property.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In this example every $100,000 of value has the same flat $105 tax applied to it so that $900,000 in value would result in taxes of 9 x $105. In a real progressive situation there would be an increase in the property tax rate as the value went up. For example, at a $500,000 valuation the tax might go up to $125 for every additional $100,000 of valuation over $500,000. That would be a &#8220;progressive&#8221; jump.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota property taxes used to be like that meaning that more expensive homes were taxed at higher rates. I wish it would come back. I suspect that a lot of folks in big Duluth houses were for the Red Plan and I&#8217;d like them to be pulling a heavier load.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend sent this story to me about the Perham School district&#8217;s levy referendum. Its mostly correct and I suspect much of what it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}