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Act 73 would replace local homestead rates with a statewide education tax and create a homestead exemption
Summary
Committee staff explained that Act 73 replaces locally varying homestead rates with a single statewide education tax (adjustable by statutory multipliers), establishes a supplemental district spending levy with equalization and recapture, and repeals the property tax credit in favor of an income‑sensitive homestead exemption (benefit phases and income cutoff noted).
Committee presenters described the Title 32 provisions in Act 73 that restructure property taxation for education funding.
Statewide education tax and supplemental district spending: Act 73 replaces locally varying homestead rates with a single statewide education tax, adjusted by statutory tax‑classification multipliers (factors) for different property classes. To allow locally chosen supplemental spending above the EOP, the statute creates a uniform supplemental district spending levy: each district’s supplemental rate is benchmarked to the rate needed in the lowest taxing‑capacity district to raise the chosen supplemental…
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