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Byline: ANNE LINDBERG; Times Staff Writer CLEARWATER -- Less than two weeks after county commissioners hiked the property tax rate to pay for the emergency medical services system by 46 [...]

Byline: ANNE LINDBERG; Times Staff Writer Some homeowners in the unincorporated area could see their tax rates go up as much as 41 percent to pay for fire protection after [...]

The pledges in the spring gave way to the fiscal realities of the summer Tuesday when a Hernando Commission majority correctly sought an increased property tax rate to help close [...]

Byline: SHEILA MULLANE ESTRADA; TIMES CORRESPONDENT ST. PETE BEACH -- The City Commission wants to know what services and programs its residents want and whether they are willing to pay [...]

Byline: ANNE LINDBERG; Times Staff Writer Some residents in unincorporated Pinellas could see double-digit hikes in property tax rates to pay higher costs for fire service. The increases are driven [...]

Byline: ISAAC ARNSDORF; Times Staff Writer NEW PORT RICHEY -- The very idea of a 23 percent tax increase would send most politicians running. But not the New Port Richey [...]

Byline: SHEILA MULLANE ESTRADA; Times Correspondent ST. PETE BEACH -- A potential million-dollar shortfall in revenues next year is forcing the city to consider major cuts in personnel and services [...]

Byline: STEVE BOUSQUET The influential panel that has the power to propose the biggest changes to Florida's tax system in decades made a recent decision that says a lot about [...]

Byline: JENNIFER LIBERTO TALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Charlie Crist wants to increase public school spending by $394 per student, to $7,606, based partly on his assumption that property values will continue [...]

Byline: JENNIFER LIBERTO TALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Charlie Crist wants to increase public school spending by $394 per student, to $7,606, based partly on his assumption that property values will continue [...]

Byline: THOMAS C. TOBIN LARGO -- The Pinellas School Board tentatively approved its lowest tax rate in 20 years Tuesday night, but residents and at least one board member said [...]

Byline: TAMARA EL-KHOURY DUNEDIN -- The tax rate for Dunedin property owners will drop at least 13 percent next year, due to a mandate from the Florida Legislature that local [...]

Byline: TERRI BRYCE REEVES OLDSMAR -- City property owners will see their property tax rate drop at least 11 percent next year, City Manager Bruce Haddock told City Council members [...]

PINELLAS COUNTY Pinellas County's property tax millage rate would drop 10 percent under a preliminary budget compiled by the county staff, County Administrator Steve Spratt said Tuesday. That means a [...]

TAMPA -- PINELLAS COUNTY Millage rate expected to fall 10 percent Pinellas County's property tax millage rate would drop 10 percent under a preliminary budget compiled by the county staff, [...]

PINELLAS COUNTY Pinellas County's property tax millage rate would drop 10 percent under a preliminary budget compiled by the county staff, County Administrator Steve Spratt said Tuesday. That means a [...]

House: End property tax, raise sales tax - Feb. 22, storyEureka! Our elected representatives in Tallahassee have hit on an intelligent, equitable way to raise revenue: a tax on consumption [...]

Re: Hernando County property tax rate.Everyone is struggling to get the highest reduction in the millage rate possible, trying to get some tax relief.One-half mill reduction is certainly not enough. [...]