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Options for Expanding Property Tax Relief for Lower Income Homeowners

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

As I’ve written before , both our state constitution and the Machinery Act (the collection of state statutes that govern property taxes) require that all local governments across North Carolina play by the same property tax rules. In 2008, the General Assembly added a provision to G.S. 105-286 , discounts under G.S.

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Federalism and the Detroit Bankruptcy Case

Public Policy Blog

Since then, there’s been a flow of federalism or states’ rights cases heading to the Supreme Court, on a regular basis” (Bomboy, 2013). This makes it not within government interest to create an improved community/local economic environment as growth/profit is essentially restricted and ‘rolled back’ per the Property Tax Act.

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