Property Tax

Embattled Los Angeles County Assessor John Noguez was arrested early Wednesday following a yearlong influence-peddling investigation that has roiled the office entrusted with determining property taxes on more than 2 million Los Angeles homes and...

A top aide and prominent campaign contributor to embattled Los Angeles County Assessor John Noguez were also arrested early Wednesday following a year-long corruption investigation into the office that determines property taxes on more than 2 million...

A total of 32 criminal charges have been filed against Los Angeles County Assessor John Noguez, his top aide and a campaign contributor as part of a political corruption probe into whether the office reduced property taxes in exchange for contributions...

Brightening budget outlooks have Palm Beach County commissioners considering across-the-board pay increases for department employees. The County Commission for the first time in three years has approved a budget that manages to avoid raising property...

The Seminole County School Board isn't the only one seeking a property tax increase. The Volusia County School Board wants one, too. Like Seminole, Volusia has placed a referendum question on the Nov. 6 ballot asking voters to approve a 1-ml property...

One would think that after decades of population flight from Baltimore and the city struggling with a property tax rate over double that of the next highest municipality, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake would be highly sensitive regarding the levy of new...

The burden of Florida's property taxes would likely shift away from first-time homebuyers, developers, snowbirds and landlords and weigh down the state's existing homeowners under a ballot measure approved last year by state lawmakers and pushed this year...

PETOSKEY -- Voters in Resort and Bear Creek townships soon will consider renewal of a property tax levy that supports the local fire department's operations. If approved, the proposal on the Tuesday, Aug. 7, election ballot would allow the two...

Glenwood Mayor Kerry Durkin knows the dangers of gambling with taxpayer money: A reminder looms just across a bank of trees from Village Hall. Taxpayers in the south suburb have long had to subsidize a golf course that officials bought more than a decade...

The Costa Mesa City Council agreed at an emergency meeting Thursday to pay the state $1.4 million it has asked for in property tax revenues from the city's dissolved Redevelopment Agency. "It's our belief we don't owe them anything," Finance Director...

City Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young had a radical thought: that the city's legislative body might actually live up to its role as a co-equal branch of government and exercise some influence in how Baltimore will spend $2.3 billion in the next...

Elgin officials recently passed the 2013 budget, with most of the discussion and dissension focusing more on this year's financial decisions. The $277.9 million budget was passed in a 6 to 1 vote with councilman John Prigge voting against the plan....