City Council drops property tax increase proposal
Chase Carlisle, the Memphis City Council budget chairman, said the council had agreed to drop the property tax increase by amending Mayor Jim Strickland’s proposed budget to the tune of about $12 million. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian file)
The council voted down the tax hike Tuesday.
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Samuel Hardiman is an enterprise and investigative reporter who focuses on local government and politics. He began his journalism career at the Tulsa World in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he covered business and, later, K-12 education. Hardiman came to Memphis in 2018 to join the Memphis Business Journal, covering government and economic development. He then served as the Memphis Commercial Appeal’s city hall reporter and later joined The Daily Memphian in 2023. His current work focuses on Elon Musk’s xAI, regional energy needs and how Memphis and Shelby County government spend taxpayer dollars.
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