Quiz

Bills go out in the summer. Half is due by the end of September and half by the end of March.

The same dollars buy less when prices rise: $1 ÷ 1.15 is about 87 cents of what it used to buy.

The assessor values every property as of January 1, and reassesses every two years. You can appeal to the board of review each spring.

The home district pays the receiving district about the state cost per pupil, so a district that loses students loses that funding.

Voters in the county approve it. The state only collects it alongside the state sales tax.

You pay one bill to the county treasurer, who collects for every government that covers your address.

Every district levies a uniform $5.40 per $1,000 of taxable value, and state aid fills the rest of the formula’s cost.

School debt service repays bonds, and school bonds need 60% of voters to pass.

SAVE isn’t a property tax: it’s the statewide 1% sales tax for school buildings and technology.

Each government sets its own levies. The assessor only sets the value, and the state sets the rollback and the limits.