This is part of a 2023 series about property tax in NJ. View the series landing page here. An upfront caveat: the levy is a topic with vast scope beyond what I can and want to cover here. There is a lot more you can reference; for instance, a good read if you have the...Continue reading
Category: Property Tax: Demystified
NJ’s 565 Municipalities & 21 County Tax Boards, Mapped
This is part of a series about local budgets and property tax. View the series landing page here. New Jersey has 21 county tax boards and I’ve got links to their websites below (links are current as of the writing of this post). Click on a county to see the related information including the county board...Continue reading
Workshop #1: Property Tax Appeals (March 26th @2pm in SPU’s McIntyre Hall)
I'm excited to share my first workshop which will happen tomorrow, Sunday March 26th at 2pm in SPU's McIntyre Hall located on JFK Boulevard between Montgomery and Glenwood, which I've mapped below. The deadline for property tax appeals is rapidly approaching in Hudson County (and many other counties, too). To help community members engage the nuance,...Continue reading
Data Visualization of “Chapter 123” Law
This is part of a series about local budgets and property tax. View the series landing page here. In my previous post I touched upon “implied” market value. In this post I want to touch upon NJ’s “Chapter 123” law which I last wrote about in 2021, but am revisiting again with an interactive teaching...Continue reading
Property Tax Appeals & “Implied” Market Value
This is part of a series about local budgets and property tax. View the series landing page here. In advance of my upcoming property tax appeals workshop on March 26th, I’ve been thinking about how to distill property tax appeals math in the most intuitive way possible. And in my view, “implied” market value is...Continue reading
Your property tax bill & what it’s pointing to
This is part of a series about local budgets and property tax. View the series landing page here. The tax bill offers a highly personalized context to connect our property (the basis of our property tax) with the larger system of property taxation in the community (which involves the levy, the tax base, and the...Continue reading
The local budget timeline
This is part of a series about local budgets and property tax. View the series landing page here. To follow the public money and better understand what’s driving your property tax bills, you have to know when to engage the process. Understanding the “when” can take a taxpayer into a series of bureaucratic rabbit holes...Continue reading
Property Tax & Local Budgets, Resources & Notes
This is part of a series about local budgets and property tax. View the series landing page here. Throughout this series I am using resources and links from a variety of sources. I’m sharing as I go and will update this page as the series progresses. Helpful initial resources: NEW JERSEY HOMEOWNER’S GUIDE TO PROPERTY...Continue reading
Property tax dashboard: visualizing tax levies, tax base, & tax rates from 1998-2022
This is part of a series about local budgets and property tax. View the series landing page here. I am sharing in this post a tool I’ve been using (and will continue to use) as I write this series. It is a property tax dashboard, created from a fantastic set of datasets published by the...Continue reading
Property Tax & Local Budgets, An Intro to the series
This is part of a series about local budgets and property tax. View the series landing page here. I am launching a new series on CivicParent about the local government budget process and property tax. My hope is for this series to be: A practical roadmap for taxpayers who may want to engage the 2023...Continue reading
Jersey City’s 2022 tax hikes & Q3 and Q4 tax bill flux, explained
This post made my head spin a bit … the math and timing is wonky and confusing. I’ve done my best to break it down and welcome dialog and feedback about anything that is unclear. This past week, Jersey City’s municipal council passed its annual 2022 budget with a $112 million increase to the city...Continue reading