{"id":8150,"date":"2025-04-18T20:16:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T00:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/?p=8150"},"modified":"2025-04-18T20:16:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T00:16:47","slug":"nc-revenue-neutral-tax-policy-quick-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/2025\/04\/18\/nc-revenue-neutral-tax-policy-quick-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"NC Revenue-Neutral Tax Policy \u2013 Quick Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8150?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8150?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div><ul>\n<li><strong><b>State law (NCGS \u00a7 159-11(e)) requires counties to calculate and publicly share a \u201crevenue-neutral tax rate\u201d<\/b><\/strong>during property reappraisal years.<\/li>\n<li><strong><b>This rate is meant to keep tax bills flat <\/b><\/strong>\u2014 based on the previous year\u2019s revenue <strong><b>plus only a small growth factor <\/b><\/strong>(usually 1\u20132%) for new construction or improvements.<\/li>\n<li><strong><b>However, counties are NOT required to adopt the revenue-neutral rate.<\/b><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Commissioners can legally choose a <strong><b>higher or lower <\/b><\/strong>rate.<\/li>\n<li>If they choose a higher rate, <strong><b>even if it looks smaller than last year<\/b><\/strong>, <strong><b>it\u2019s still a tax increase due to rising property values.<\/b><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Many counties choose rates above revenue-neutral after reappraisals, <strong><u><b>but citizens have a right to question and challenge that decision<\/b><\/u><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This means: <strong><b>The state forces them to calculate it, but not to use it. <\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><u><b><i>It\u2019s up to citizens to hold commissioners accountable<\/i><\/b><\/u><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Editor\u2019s Note<\/u>&#8211;<strong><em><u><b><i>Robert A says<\/i><\/b><\/u><\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em><u><b><i>I TOLD YOU SO!!!<\/i><\/b><\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How many times???<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Picture5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8151\" src=\"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Picture5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"539\" height=\"789\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Picture5.png 539w, https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Picture5-205x300.png 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State law (NCGS \u00a7 159-11(e)) requires counties to calculate and publicly share a \u201crevenue-neutral tax rate\u201dduring property reappraisal years. This rate is meant to keep tax bills flat \u2014 based on the previous year\u2019s revenue plus only a small growth factor (usually 1\u20132%) for new construction or improvements. However, counties are NOT required to adopt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"2","parallax":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"single-left","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"topbottom","share_float_style":"share-normal","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","number_popup_post":"2"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"no-crop","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":"(Forwarded by Robert A)"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cgg-investigations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8153,"href":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8150\/revisions\/8153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}