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Morgan says resetting local property tax rate could spawn tax hike move

By , Daily Memphian Updated: May 01, 2021 4:00 AM CT | Published: May 01, 2021 4:00 AM CT

City Council budget committee Chairman Worth Morgan said that the drop of the city property tax rate below $3 as appraised values have increased could set the stage for a tax rate hike.

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2021 budget season Memphis City Council Worth Morgan Jim Strickland Martavius Jones Subscriber Only

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Bill Dries

Bill Dries

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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