Hialeah councilman pushes 10% property tax cut

HIALEAH, Fla. — A Hialeah metropolis councilman is proposing a 10% millage simplification that would importantly alteration spot taxes for residents — acold greater than the 1% chopped floated by the interim politician conscionable 2 weeks ago.

The connection comes 1 time up of the city’s archetypal fund reading. Councilman Jesús Tundidor, who is moving for mayor, says he’s recovered the wealth to marque it enactment by pausing definite metropolis projects.

“This twelvemonth is simply a pugnacious twelvemonth for everyone,” Tundidor said, citing rising costs for electricity, water, sewer and location insurance.

“A 10% simplification successful our millage complaint and that (equates) to implicit $200 a year,” helium said.

The chopped would permission a $13 cardinal spread successful the city’s budget. Tundidor says portion of that wealth could beryllium recovered by scaling backmost connected superior betterment projects.

“Identifying definite projects we don’t need, that we don’t request astatine this moment, that aren’t urgent … hopefully anyplace betwixt 5-6 cardinal dollars,” helium added.

The rest, helium says, would travel from the h2o and sewer fund — contempt Miami-Dade County precocious passing on accrued fees to Hialeah.

Miami-Dade Property Appraiser Tomás Regalado backed the idea.

“People privation taxation relief,” Regalado said, adding, “we judge cities should travel the way Hialeah whitethorn beryllium taking.”

The connection besides echoes Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ propulsion to spell further astatine the authorities level by eliminating spot taxes connected superior homes.

“Taxes (are) purely government,” DeSantis said. “I bash deliberation these spot taxes person pinched a batch of radical and I deliberation we person to bash thing astir it.”

Hialeah past lowered its millage complaint successful 2013, which led to furloughs, wage cuts, closed parks and libraries, the elimination of pensions and the departure of much than 100 archetypal responders — impacts the metropolis is inactive recovering from.

The archetypal fund speechmaking is scheduled for Wednesday, with a imaginable ballot expected successful the coming weeks.

If approved, the changes would instrumentality effect successful November.

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