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Ways & Means reviews homestead exemption modeling in Education Finance draft
Summary
Julia Richter of the Joint Fiscal Office briefed the committee on modeling for the homestead exemption in the Education Finance draft 1.1, outlining estimated costs, who would gain or lose under the proposal and how caps or a tax-rate cut would change outcomes.
Julia Richter of the Joint Fiscal Office told the Ways & Means Committee that the office ran more granular modeling of the homestead exemption included in the Education Finance proposal (draft 1.1) and reviewed implications for households across income and house-site value bands.
The analysis, Richter said, uses fiscal-year 2025 data, projects 2024 income using consensus growth equations, and assumes the property tax credit is applied in the same year it is earned (no multi-year lag). Richter said the exemption in draft 1.1 is estimated to cost about $45,000,000 more than current law and that cost is sensitive to the property tax rates used in the model.
Richter said, “Essentially, it's an exemption of a certain portion of a household's property value from the homestead property tax that's based off of the household's income.” She described a stepped exemption that declines as household income rises, and she showed detailed…
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