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VeterinarianCapable9 t1_jaexkge wrote

Reply to comment by grr5000 in New Jersey’s notorious property-tax bills went up once again last year, growing on average by more than $200 or more than 2%, according to the latest data from the state; the increase pushed the average New Jersey property-tax bill to a record-high $9,490 in 2022 by rollotomasi07071

The hardest thing to do in Jersey is to get neighboring municipalities to commit to shared services. It's not the governments. Most of the smart towns have been doing this where they can for years. It's the residents and their sense of identity/loyalty/hate.

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falcon0159 t1_jaevdfd wrote

Reply to New Jersey’s notorious property-tax bills went up once again last year, growing on average by more than $200 or more than 2%, according to the latest data from the state; the increase pushed the average New Jersey property-tax bill to a record-high $9,490 in 2022 by rollotomasi07071

My taxes went up 4.5%. $600. I live in a town with shitty schools. Why am I paying $14k/yr? I get that it goes to schools, but the schools should be good then, that's the argument I never understood. Obviously there are towns with really good schools, but many towns have bad schools and a majority of towns have mediocre schools. I don't think anyone here can make the argument that Newark, Irvington, Passaic, Paterson, etc. have good schools. But they still have high property taxes.

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owlnest t1_jaet5gv wrote

Reply to comment by Cashneto in JCPL unable to explain their my electric bill to me, can anyone help? More in the comments by Cashneto

I don't have access to my current bill, but my past old bills had multiple lines for generation and delivery. I'm not sure why you have that change, but it's either methodology/rate change between 2022 and 2023 or something else. You'll need to wait for next month's bill to compare. Let's say you used 779 KWH for one month. There's a base rate for the 779 KWH delivery. Then there's different additional rates that are tacked on based upon time of day (high demand vs low demand times). That's why you have additional 251 KWH and 528 KWH rates for both delivery for that period.

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bostonbro5 t1_jaeoj09 wrote

Reply to comment by arthurnewt in New Jersey’s notorious property-tax bills went up once again last year, growing on average by more than $200 or more than 2%, according to the latest data from the state; the increase pushed the average New Jersey property-tax bill to a record-high $9,490 in 2022 by rollotomasi07071

It is true according to my property tax documents that I get. Half of the school tax is sent to the county and redistributed to one town

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bostonbro5 t1_jaenwm9 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in New Jersey’s notorious property-tax bills went up once again last year, growing on average by more than $200 or more than 2%, according to the latest data from the state; the increase pushed the average New Jersey property-tax bill to a record-high $9,490 in 2022 by rollotomasi07071

Lmao now I'm a techbro and a racist? Amazing. Are you claiming that my property taxes aren't going to a county school fund that is primarily dispersed in an Abbot district(or w/e its called)? Are my property tax documents that I receive stating otherwise incorrect?

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Nexis4Jersey t1_jaenamt wrote

Reply to comment by jiffyparkinglot in New Jersey’s notorious property-tax bills went up once again last year, growing on average by more than $200 or more than 2%, according to the latest data from the state; the increase pushed the average New Jersey property-tax bill to a record-high $9,490 in 2022 by rollotomasi07071

I've done pretty well...region's healthy at 6.5 million... , my tax rate is 12% on the $$$ wealth bracket and 2% on $$$.

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SD-777 t1_jaempa7 wrote

Reply to Is this legit? by Bergamoted

Only thing not legit is the phone number, it's just a recording that due to high call volume they can't take your call. Classic NJ red tape.

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acoreilly87 t1_jaelpic wrote

Reply to Justice! by dragongrl

I saw one that didn’t clean off the windshield. He was peering out the top of the windshield where gravity had made the snow drop about 6 inches.

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