{"id":5865,"date":"2014-03-19T15:57:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T19:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=5865"},"modified":"2014-03-26T13:32:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T17:32:02","slug":"aurora-council-approves-3-75-tax-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/aurora-council-approves-3-75-tax-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora Council approves 3.75% tax hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aurora homeowners can expect to pay just over $109 more in property taxes for 2014, following Tuesday night&#8217;s Council meeting. <\/p>\n<p>Councillors formally signed off on a 3.75 per cent property tax hike at Tuesday&#8217;s Council meeting, following months of debate. <\/p>\n<p>Combined with a tax hike from the Regional level, as well as school taxes, it will result in an overall hit of 1.99 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>For the average Aurora home marked with $550,000 in assessment value, this will result in an increase of $109.44. Commercial properties are expected to face a 1.13 per cent combined tax increase this year as well. <\/p>\n<p>For a commercial property also assessed at $550,000, this translates into an increase of $122.51 on your tax bill. <\/p>\n<p>Full coverage of Council&#8217;s final debate on the 2014 tax increase will be found in the March 27 edition of The Auroran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Brock Weir Aurora homeowners can expect to pay just over $109 more in property taxes for 2014, following Tuesday night&#8217;s Council meeting. Councillors formally signed off on a 3.75 per cent property tax hike at Tuesday&#8217;s Council meeting, following months of debate. Combined with a tax hike from the Regional level, as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}