More details needed on tax bill

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Posted - Saturday, November 07, 2009 11:07 AM EST

Well, the tax bills have gone out and the comments are flying. "How much did yours go up?" is the frequent refrain. In a short period of time, it's a little obvious that we are paying substantially more for just "being here."

Our own tax bill rose 18 percent over last year, and that doesn't even take into consideration that our water bill will be raised another $1,200 a year (projected) beginning in 2010, which represents a 500 percent increase for us.

But have any of you really looked over your 2010 tax bill? Unless our bill is the only one written this way, you are no longer given the following information: Assessed value, exemptions or taxable value. I guess we're all just supposed to trust that the Tax Collector's Office is correct with its figures? Are we to accept that they never make an error?

For the 33 years my husband has lived here and the 25 years I have been here, we have never received a bill that did not include this information. Why is this information missing? And why do we have to pursue the county to receive it? Whose idea was it to omit it from our tax bills this year?

Is Tax Collector Danise D. Henriquez listening? Please take note.

Ann and Howard Lynch

Marathon