County mayor’s property tax proposal becomes tax hike
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris speaks during a press conference May 22. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris is sticking by a county property tax rate of $2.73 for the new fiscal year even though the State of Tennessee has set a base tax rate that is four cents lower.
The decision means Harris is proposing a four-cent property tax hike, although Harris doesn’t see it that way.
“No, it’s not,” Harris said Thursday, June 12, when asked about the four-cent difference in the state’s certified rate and what he is proposing.
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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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