Property Tax

Governor Mitch Daniels joined executives from RACO, a division of Hubbell Incorporated (NYSE: HUBB and HUBA), Wednesday to announce the company's plans to relocate its distribution center from South Holland, Ill. to here, creating up to 77 new jobs by...

The house wasn't much to look at. Its windows were old and leaky, and the paint was flaking so badly there were spots that were stripped clean. And the lawn was overgrown. "It looked like a condemned property," said Mark Hosty. But the dilapidated...

Supervisors told Paint Township residents Tuesday to expect a 75 percent property tax increase in 2013.   The 3:30 p.m. meeting, normally attended by just a handful of people, drew a crowd of about 50 residents seeking explanations for the township's...

The Winchester Board of Commissioners voted to approve a modest increase to the property tax rate in its regular meeting Tuesday. The tax rate for 2012 will be set at 14.6 cents per $100 of assessed value, up from a rate of 14.5 cents per $100 in 2011....

The property tax rate in Wilmore this year could be 13.1 percent higher than it was in 2010, with much of the increase compensating for lower property values. The city council approved the first reading of the most recent increase by a 5-1 vote Monday...

SOUTH BEND – South Bend’s tallest building is apparently closer to new ownership while it continues to be plagued with financial problems. The Chase Tower narrowly avoided the auction block Tuesday when the county treasurer received a check in...

Sen. Tom Casperson, R-Escanaba, is peeling the lid off a can worms with a plan to order your local nature conservancy to open its privately owned fragile and protected lands to any and all public uses -- or to pay property taxes on its holdings. Yes,...

The Elmhurst City Council has given the green light to establishing the city's fourth tax-increment-financing district on North York Street. The council approved the district in an 11-1 vote Sept. 4. The district will extend along a narrow corridor on...

Just above the cash register at Sam's Auto Service, the owner has taped up a photo of his elderly father, a snapshot of his granddaughter and his property tax bills. Owner Bassam Shaheen knows it may seem odd to tape up an old $53,000 annual tax bill....

PERRYVILLE — In light of the upcoming sesquicentennial celebration of the Battle of Perryville, Oct. 5-7, the city of Perryville is hoping to spruce up some of the properties in town. Mayor Anne Sleet had Perryville Chief of Police Charles Parks...

The timing for setting property taxes for Danville may have been different, but the ad valorem rate on real property passed Wednesday was the same as the current year. Danville City Commission voted unanimously — commissioner J.H. Atkins did not...

A bill that would require land conservancies such as the Little Traverse Conservancy to either pay property tax on their nature preserves or open the preserves to all uses started because of a dogsled race. The race, which ran from Marquette to Newberry,...