Property Tax

AZ Free Enterprise Club
Monday, September 8, 2014
The Arizona Free Enterprise Club strongly urges voters in Maricopa County to reject a proposed $935 million hospital bond (over a $1 billion with interest) this November that would raise property taxes and reduce the quantity and quality of health care choices for valley residents.
AZ Central
Thursday, September 4, 2014
Ken Alltucker
Executives from the four largest private hospital systems in metro Phoenix question the need for voters to approve a $935 million bond issue that would pay for a new and expanded county hospital system.
Bloomberg BNA
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Michael Kerman
http://www.bna.com/trouble-paradise-valleyan-b17179890485/ An Arizona town ruffled feathers when it enacted a local ordinance raising a “parcel tax” based on property values to fund local fire services. Because the town bypassed the ordinary procedures required by state law to enact or raise a property tax, the Arizona Legislature was left to put out the fire.
Downtown Devil
Friday, May 2, 2014
Agnel Phillip
Wayne Rainey thinks his property taxes are too high. As MonOrchid’s owner, he estimated that property taxes are the second or third largest expense associated with running the art gallery. Elsewhere in downtown, large-scale projects have been given a tax incentive that significantly reduces their property taxes in an effort to promote redevelopment. However, Rainey could not get that incentive because of the costs associated with its approval process.
Associated Press
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Bob Christie
The Arizona Senate rejected an amendment putting GCU and like schools in Class 6 property.
AZCentral/NBC
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Brahm Resnik
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AZFamily
Friday, March 28, 2014
Dennis Welch
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The Arizona Republic
Monday, February 17, 2014
Associated Press
Arizona Tax Research Association president Kevin McCarthy opposes the bill because it could subject corporations to public shaming for taking advantage of legal tax credits.
Arizona Capitol Times
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Luige del Puerto
“It is a nuclear ordnance on the state’s public finance system,” said Kevin McCarthy, president of the Arizona Tax Research Association.
Arizona Capitol Times
Friday, December 13, 2013
A draft of the proposal obtained by the Arizona Tax Research Assn, a critic of Prop 13 Arizona/EZ Property Tax, shows that the initiative also will repeal entire sections of the state Constitution