By Susan K. Livio and Carla Astudillo | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on January 25, 2017 at 2:56 PM, updated January 25, 2017 at 7:01 PM
TRENTON — New Jersey’s infamously high property tax bills topped $8,500 per home in 2016, a 2.35 percent increase over the previous year, according to figures released Wednesday by the Department of Community Affairs.
Property owners paid $8,549 Â — $196 more than they did in 2015 when the average tax bill rose about 2.2 percent, according to the analysis.
The average residential bill has risen from $8,161 in 2014 to $8,353 in 2015 to $8,549 in 2016.
Each year, the average bill set a new high bar for what Garden State property owners
https://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/01/average_property_tax_bill_reached_85k_per_home_in.html
Someone gets stuck with the tab for the over generous salaries, medical benefits, and retirements of our union state county and municipal employees.
They’re definitely going up in Ridgewood to pay for excessive municipal public safety contracts and retirements, as well as a $102mn BOE budget including full day kindergarten. The Council has three members fixated on greater that 2% tax hikes
keep lying its not going to help the FAC
Out of control state and municipal spending on public sector contracts
The last time Ridgewood had a CFO municipal taxes rose 4.8% a year.