THE SHELBY INDEPENDENT

By Alan Wooten | The Center Square Earlier passage of a proposal for a statewide amendment on the midterm ballot in November would give voters a chance to weigh in a levy limit. Affects local / Raleigh – Stopping property tax revaluation changes throughout North Carolina this year and allowing them to happen in 2027 is in a proposal that has reached first-term Democratic Gov. Josh Stein. Reappraisals are required at least once every eight years, and some do so more frequently

By David Beasley | The Center Square file | The Shelby Independent (The Center Square) – North Carolina voters could get the chance to vote in November on a constitutional amendment that would give the Legislature marching order to put the brakes on rising property taxes. Dan Ettefagh, the director of the General Assembly’s bill drafting division, presented the proposed constitutional amendment to a committee in the House of Representatives on Wednesday. It would “impose by

By Alan Wooten | The Center Square Alan Wooten | The Center Square (The Center Square) – Property tax reform options will be examined and recommendations made by a 10-member committee of the Senate in North Carolina. Sen. Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, the president pro tempore, chose Appropriations Committee Cochairmen Brent Jackson, R-Sampson, and Michael Lee, R-New Hanover, to lead the group. Policy proposals “to rein in runaway property tax practices being implemented acro