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Wyandotte Commissioners Want to Keep Growing Government at Taxpayers’ Expense 0
- Tax & Spending
- March 25, 2022
Last week, Kansas City, Kansas and Wyandotte County Mayor and CEO Tyrone Garner announced budget recommendations to set property tax mill rates at the calculated revenue neutral rate. This would mean that the levied property tax would decrease by about 8.6 percentage points. The decrease in revenue would be offset by an increase in sales
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Land Banks Fail to Solve Government-Created Living Costs 0
- Tax & Spending
- October 25, 2021
The Wyandotte County Land Bank is a government body established in 2018 to confiscate homes from delinquent taxpayers, refurbish them, and then sell them back to the community. Currently, the Land Bank holds around 3,500 properties that they then can sell. This process has not been without controversy. Sen. David Haley (D -Wyandotte) cited the
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