{"id":4763,"date":"2011-09-07T07:06:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T11:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4763"},"modified":"2011-09-07T09:35:39","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T13:35:39","slug":"morning-read-franklin-county-looks-at-new-car-truck-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/09\/07\/morning-read-franklin-county-looks-at-new-car-truck-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Franklin County looks at new car, truck tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>County governments are scrambling to make up revenue shortfalls.\u00a0 The 2% property tax makes it difficult to boost income the traditional route, so officials are considering alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x397274190\/New-tax-considered-by-Franklin-County\">Plattsburgh Press Republican<\/a> is reporting that Franklin County is considering charging a fee for cars and trucks registered in the county.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If adopted, the fee would be paid two years at a time, meaning it  will cost $10 for each passenger vehicle registered and $20 for each  registered commercial vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed increase may help  legislators as they try to balance the tentative 2012 budget, which  could have a tax-levy increase of more than 30 percent when it is  released on Oct. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the new fee could generate $300,000 and take up to 2 percent off the tax levy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you think?\u00a0 Is this a reasonable way to make up a budget deficit?\u00a0 The article points out that many counties already levy this tax.<\/p>\n<p>Public hearings on the proposed change are scheduled for 6 pm Wednesday September 14th, at the Harrietstown Town Hall in Saranac Lake and the County Courthouse in Malone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>County governments are scrambling to make up revenue shortfalls.\u00a0 The 2% property tax makes it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[22,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4764,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions\/4764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}