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Appleton superintendent: property-tax burden down as share of income; April referendum would add about $75 to example bill
Summary
Greg Hartjes, superintendent for the Appleton Area School District, says state and local tax burdens have fallen as a share of personal income and used two homeowner examples to show local tax changes. He projects an April referendum would raise the example Grand Chute bill by $75 next year.
Greg Hartjes, superintendent for the Appleton Area School District, told viewers in the third video of a property-tax series that school property-tax levies and overall state and local tax burdens have fallen as a share of personal income in recent years.
Hartjes presented two state-level graphs and said, “your total burden has gone down to be at 9.6% in 2024,” arguing that although property-tax bills have risen in dollar terms, they have not grown as fast as incomes. He said a graph of school levies as a percentage of personal income has…
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