By ROBERT LINNEHAN | The Voorhees Sun
Thanks to a delay from the state, residents won’t be seeing their property tax bills appear in their mailboxes at the normal time this year.
No, the township hasn’t forgotten to mail them out or decided to not collect any in property taxes this year. The bills will be delayed because the state took so long in approving its own 2010 fiscal year budget. Because of the delay, Voorhees couldn’t estimate its own tax levy.
The Township Committee approved a resolution last week estimating the entire tax levy for 2009 at $102,547,286. The estimated tax levy covers property, fire district, school districts, open space and Camden County taxes.
Because the state’s budget was delayed, Committee member Harry Platt said the township tax bill will be mailed out at a later date. This is not a new course of action, he said, as the state did the same thing last year.
“Usually the tax bills are mailed out in July,” he said. “There will be a grace period of course. We couldn’t establish anything until we got the state numbers.”
The township passed its own $24.89 million budget last month. The local purpose tax rate will see an increase of about 2 cents from the 2008 rate.
See this week’s print edition of The Sun for the full story.
