A public listening to on a proposed Lamar County property tax charge of 34.48 cents per $100 valuation for the 2022 tax 12 months is scheduled earlier than Lamar County Commissioners’ Court docket at 9 a.m. Monday on the Lamar County Courthouse, 119 N. Principal St.
The speed is the very best doable charge allowed with out voter approval and is greater than a penny larger than the no new income tax charge of 33.16 cents, which might increase the identical quantity of property tax income from the identical properties as final 12 months’s tax charge of 36.08 cents per $100 valuation.
Meaning Lamar County is proposing to extend property taxes for the 2022 tax 12 months though the proposed 2022 tax charge is nearly 2 cents decrease than the 2021 tax charge.
The brand new charge would assist a proposed price range filed July 29 by Lamar County Decide Brandon Bell and would increase roughly $836,000 extra {dollars} than final 12 months, a 5.6% improve, in keeping with proposed price range paperwork.
Commissioners could select to undertake the proposed charge after the general public listening to, or the courtroom might wait till after a public listening to on the proposed price range scheduled Aug. 22 at a time and place to be introduced.
