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No tax hike in $572M 2017 Jersey City budget

By Terrence T. McDonald | The Jersey Journal
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on March 23, 2017 at 2:19 PM, updated March 23, 2017 at 2:21 PM

JERSEY CITY -- The City Council last night unanimously introduced a $572 million budget for 2017 that comes with no municipal tax hike.

In a statement, Mayor Steve Fulop credited an increase in hotel tax collections, municipal court fines and revenue from tax abatements for the steady tax rate. This is the third year in a row municipal taxes are not expected to rise.

The city will now move to the budget hearing stage, when department directors will appear before the council to explain their spending requests for the year. The budget isn't usually formally adopted until at least the summer.

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Yvonne wrote: It is amazing how taxes or fees go up but the story is no tax increase. Here is one example of increase. In 2012, homeowners paid $12.5 million in the franchise agreement (water). Today, it is $19 million. Instead of giving the public a refund, we are paying more. How about adding up the increase of fees that the city charge residents?