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The cost of living is a top issue for Vermonters this election. Here's how your vote can impact future decisions about Vermont taxes and financial assistance programs.
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Education finance is notoriously complicated and full of weird jargon. We hope this helps.
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This year, Vermont Public has been using a reporting initiative called the Citizens Agenda to figure out which issues you care about in the lead-up to Nov. 5. It turns out a lot of people want to talk about taxes — and how to lower them.
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Vermont is one of nine states that tax some Social Security benefits. Some people would like to see Vermont expand its exemption to higher income levels.
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Nearly every town in Vermont saw homestead education tax increases in the new fiscal year, with a few seeing increases over 30%.
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A Greensboro family will not lose their 300-acre farm, and a 66-year-old woman will get back her house after the village of Orleans seized it. Both cases are tied to tax sales — a process municipalities can use to collect unpaid taxes, but that can also lead to people losing their homes.
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Currently, lawmakers need to sign off before a town can put an additional 1% tax on sales, rooms and meals, or alcohol. This bill will remove that requirement.
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Calais resident Juanita Nunn is selling off land and moving into a mobile home behind her farmhouse because she can’t keep up with taxes and fuel prices.
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Vermont municipalities are allowed to auction off a person’s property if they fall behind on their taxes. It’s a process called a tax sale. Local officials say tax sales are an important tool to ensure towns get the revenue they’re owed, but critics say the process has few protections for residents.
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Vermont legislators are considering two bills that would raise taxes on the state's wealthiest residents.