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t7p� t i <br />Star Tribune <br />Friday <br />September 15/1995 <br />Please read and recycle 1 B W <br />Property taxes : jump,,.a ga. <br />in n in s <br />Rising metro home values cited; Hudson has g <br />hi hest burden <br />By Norman Draper Much of that increase was fueled by rising Actrording to the survey, the owner of a hypo- those other categories. <br />Staff Writer home values, not tax levy increases said Lynn thetical 5100,000 home in Hudson would pay <br />Reed, research associate with the Taxpayers $2,917 in property taxes. That's S 1,292 more "Over here we tax everything the same," said <br />Twin Cities residential properly taxes contin- Association. than the Minneapolis owner of a $ 100,000 Gerald IIerning, Hudson's clerk/treasurer. <br />ued annual al soar in 1995, according g the 29th home would pay. It's $1,529 more than a "Consequently, businesses are paying less tax - <br />annual survey by the Citizens League and the Also, thin ys could be worse: you could be comparable Bloomington homeowner would es compared to neighboring states, and resi- <br />Minnesota Taxpayers Association. living in Wisconsin. y, $1,617 more than one in Lakeville and dences are paying more ... The businesses <br />V 162 more than one in Waconia, which was are finding the business climate more attrac- <br />The median tax for the average metro area The survey, which calculated property taxes determined to have the highest metro area tive in Wisconsin." <br />home rose slightly more than I 1 percent, for three Wisconsin communities for the first taxes for a$ 100,000 home. <br />according to the survey, which was released lime, found that Wisconsin homeowners real- But doesn't Berning get an earful from irate <br />Thursday. 1), get soaked. The typical homeowner in Hud- That's in large part because Wisconsin taxes homeowners, especially since his name is on <br />son, for instance, pays twice as much in homeowners at the same rate as apartment lhetaxbills? <br />Cause for despair? Not necessarily. property taxes as many Minnesotans with owners and businesses. In Minnesota, home- . <br />equally priced homes. I' : owners are taxed at a lower rate than both of Property taxes continued on page 3B <br />