Memphis Mayor Paul Young proposes 75-cent city property-tax hike

By  and , Daily Memphian Updated: April 24, 2024 6:55 AM CT | Published: April 23, 2024 4:16 PM CT

Young presented his budget propsosal including the first tax hike in more than nine years for the city Tuesday, April 23, at the top of Tuesday’s Memphis City Council meeting. Council budget deliberations begin next month.

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2024 budget season Paul Young city property tax increase Memphis City Council

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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.

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