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<title>State property tax payments in Adirondacks face more scrutiny, debate</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Dec 9, 2010) Over the last couple of weeks, counties across the North Country have been hiking their property taxes, often by double-digit amounts. But a big chunk of those property taxes won’t come from local residents. In many communities and in many school districts the state of New York is the biggest property owner and pays the lion’s share of taxes.As we heard yesterday, one state agency has already suspended its property tax payments, costing counties and schools millions of dollars. In this second part our two-part series, Brian Mann reports that local leaders across the region fear that their state property tax payments could also be cut. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/16804/20101209/state-property-tax-payments-in-adirondacks-face-more-scrutiny-debate">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Brian Mann</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Over the last couple of weeks, counties across the North Country have been hiking their property taxes, often by double-digit amounts. But a big chunk of those property taxes won’t come from local residents. In many communities and in many school districts the state of New York is the biggest property owner and pays the lion’s share of taxes.As we heard yesterday, one state agency has already suspended its property tax payments, costing counties and schools millions of dollars. In this second part our two-part series, Brian Mann reports that local leaders across the region fear that their state property tax payments could also be cut. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/16804/20101209/state-property-tax-payments-in-adirondacks-face-more-scrutiny-debate">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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