The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District's commission Monday adopted a property tax levy of nearly $82.46 million for 2010, the same amount as this year.Though the levy for Milwaukee County property owners is not increased, the tax rate needed to generate the revenue will go up three cents to offset declining property values in much of the county, officials said.The district's commission Monday approved an $82,458,000 levy to help pay for the district's $265.7 million capital budget for 2010
The Wisconsin Department of Revenue said residential property values in Wisconsin were down by a little more than 1 percent at the beginning of 2009, compared with the year before ...
Property tax rates in southeast Wisconsin rose significantly in 2009, and declining property values will make it difficult for local lawmakers to stem further increases, officials from the Public Policy Forum have determined ...
Residential property values tumbled an average of 7.2% across Milwaukee in the past year, with double-digit plunges in the north side's poorest neighborhoods, as the combined force of the recession and the wave of mortgage foreclosures struck the local real estate market ...