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Taxpayer advisory group urges MSAD 51 and towns to adopt a tax levy cap, warns of past budget growth
Summary
Representatives of the Cumberland–North Yarmouth Taxpayer Advisory presented to the MSAD 51 board urging adoption of a tax‑levy cap tied to either 2% or inflation and cited local tax growth and recent voter rejections as reasons to limit future increases.
Members of the Cumberland–North Yarmouth Taxpayer Advisory asked the MSAD 51 board during public comment to support a local tax levy cap that would limit annual increases to the higher of 2% or the rate of inflation.
Michael Sweat, speaking for the advisory group, outlined six reasons the group supports a cap, including that recent local tax increases “far outpace inflation,” that in the past four years the…
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