Property values in Walworth County are up, over last year; taxes are up even more. Meaningful gain, but a tax burden growing even faster.
The story’s in the Walworth County Gazette.
The story includes a link to a Public Policy Forum study. For Whitewater, both our property values and tax levy increased less than the Walworth county figures.
(Walworth County: property values up 5.9% and tax levy up 6.5%. City of Whitewater: 2 % increase in property values and 3.4 % increase in the tax levy. For Walworth County, the tax levy rate increase was about 10% more than the percentage property value increase; in the City of Whitewater, the tax levy rate increase was about 70% higher than the percentage property value increase.)