Property Taxes

Next week, the Department of Taxes will issue a highly anticipated letter that will give lawmakers, school boards and the public their first look at how much property taxes are expected to rise next year.

The skyrocketing cost of health care is a key cost driver for Vermont school budgets. And for the third year in a row, premiums for school employees will rise by double digits.

Education is a top issue for Vermonters this election. Here's how your vote can impact future decisions about Vermont's education system.

More than 100 people eventually showed up for a meeting to voice anger and frustration about taxes — and seek answers.

Gov. Phil Scott warned that, absent intervention, property taxes could spike again next year. Scott’s letter — and reactions to it — have underlined how little agreement or trust exists between the parties involved in trying to solve the problem.

The school board has once again trimmed its spending plans for the year, and scheduled a fourth budget vote for Sept. 17. Early voting has begun.

Nearly every town in Vermont saw homestead education tax increases in the new fiscal year, with a few seeing increases over 30%.

The veto comes three weeks before the end of the fiscal year for public schools in Vermont and sets up a potentially high-stakes negotiation as the clock winds down.

Just after the stroke of midnight on Saturday morning, state lawmakers passed the property tax bill necessary to pay for schools.

Every year, lawmakers must pass a bill that sets the property tax rates necessary to pay for school budgets. For this week’s edition of the Capitol Recap, we explore how lawmakers in the House want to use this legislation to respond to double-digit property tax hikes.