Mayor Harris walks back tax hike
“We will be able to offer up a new proposal that puts a little bit more money in the pockets of every homeowner in Memphis and Shelby County,” Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris said. (Daily Memphian file)
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris is changing the county property tax rate his administration is proposing to match the state’s certified rate.
Harris had proposed a $2.73 rate, four cents higher than the state-certified rate of $2.69. He held to the $2.73 figure even after the state-certified rate came in lower than expected.
But in an announcement Tuesday, Harris said he had found additional savings in his budget proposal that allowed him to match the state’s rate.
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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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