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Council introduces homestead property-tax freeze for April 7, 2026 ballot amid legal questions
Summary
County administration asked the council to place a homestead tax-credit measure on the April 7, 2026 municipal ballot; council members asked whether the statute's treatment of counties and the Hancock amendment could alter local revenues and urged legislative fixes.
St. Charles County introduced an ordinance Aug. 25 to place a homestead property-tax credit measure on the April 7, 2026 general municipal ballot that would prevent increases in property-tax liability on qualifying homesteads above a defined base year.
The ordinance (Bill 54-13, requested by the county executive and sponsored by the council as a whole) would ask voters whether a credit should be authorized so that a homestead—owner's county property-tax liability "shall not be increased above the liability incurred during the initial credit year," language reflecting the state statute authorizing such credits.
County Executive Steve…
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