| I find it very interesting that the
Muskingum Watershed District decided to send letters to
commercial property owners to inform them of the tax
assessment coming next year with the property tax bill,
but chose not to inform residential property owners.
Could this decision be based on the fact that an
election is coming up soon and maybe this information
would make it harder for the school levies and other tax
increases to pass? In my conversation with the Muskingum
Watershed District I was informed that this is an
assessment not a tax. It seems like a tax to me as it
will be added to my property tax. I was informed that an
assessment is just added, not voted on. I'm not sure how
they figured the amount of the assessment, but mine is
about 10 percent of my property tax. Commercial
properties are used to make income for their owners.
This means if you pay rent it is going up and if it is a
store, prices are going up. Is this another reason jobs
go to other states where the cost of doing business is
less?
Steve Gaswint
Nashport |