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2009 Property taxes by taxing districtsThere are 19 different taxing districts in San Juan County. Residents pay different amounts depending on where they live. The taxes that are voted on are starred.
2009 property tax rates setposted 01/27/2009 Taxes collected are limited to a one percent increase by law. Assessor Zalmanek noted that some of the 43 taxing entities in the county did not take their full allowable increase this year. Those include: the Port of Orcas, Port of Lopez, Port of Friday Harbor, the San Juan and Orcas Cemetery Districts, and San Juan Island Emergency Medical Services. When the property values increase, the tax levy amount goes down so the same amount of tax reveune is collected. The tax levy rate was reduced by amounts ranging from 3 percent in Friday Harbor to 17.4 percent on Orcas Island. Because roughly one-third of the properties in the county are re-assessed each year, two thirds of the properties in the County actually pay a lower tax rate each year than the previous year. Residents of South San Juan Island – whose appraisals increased an average of 52 percent last year – will pay about $23 less in property taxes per $100,000 value. On Blakely Island property taxes will drop by $54 per $100,000 value. "But it also means that the one-third that is re-assessed gets a pretty good bump in their assessed value to catch up with three years of market activity," said Zalmanek. In recent years that "bump" has averaged between 40 and 50 percent. The area in 2008 included Orcas, Waldron, Crane, Obstruction and several other non-ferry served islands. Values in those areas increased an average of 41.5 percent. That means that despite the significant drop in the tax rate on Orcas, the higher values will produce average tax bill increases of 16 percent in those areas. "We had a record number of people who appealed their assessments this year. A lot of them felt that values had dropped significantly since the national economic problems emerged." Zalmanek said. "But state law requires us to base our calculations on what the property was worth on January 1 of the current year and the problems had not had much of an effect on our market at that time." The Assessor has set up a property tax calculator on the County Web site that property owners can use to calculate their 2009 property tax bill and compare it to last year’s bill. It is available at: www.sanjuanco.com/assessor/taxcalculator.aspx. |
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