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When an exemption is given by the city, this exemption not only effects what the city collects in property tax it effects all the other property tax for schools, counties, parks etc, whatever entity is on your bill is effected by the sole decision of the city, because we do not pay our bills individually to each entity this shows the impact to your property tax bill.

If Fargo exempts has given the est tax of

$7,491,160 total tax they are giving away 44% of what could have been collected by the city on behalf of all the other entities.  When Fargo or any city decides to exempt property it affects your county, your schools, it is not just a city effect, so I show the cost of the exemption as such.  Measure 2 will eliminate property tax for all not just for who the city of Fargo chooses to exempt.

A hundred thousand market valued home in Fargo would pay an estimated

$1733 in tax, the exemption given was like exempting 4333 homes

Property tax is SICK

My list why: the sickness is seems to be in the whole state:
1. Fargo gives out about 44% in  est.discretionary exemptions compared to the est  property tax collected, these are by choice. Fargo Report
2.These Fargo exemptions are decided by a committee which does not keep minutes (illegal) before going to their city commission for approval
3. Dickinson has a guy moved here from Colorado who does not know how to find exemptions in his computer program
4. Williston continued to give exemptions, incentives up until December 2011, to encourage growth, I guess they did not see the boom yet.
5. Mandan city commission was going to grant an exemption for property which was not even in the city yet.
6. The Fargo person answering the phone did not give me correct definitions for appraised value, taxable value, market value.
7. Mandan did not know when a person has a fire or a natural diaster you can ask for an abatement (a reduction in property tax). It is unheard of, but the law does allow it, they just won’t or don’t want to do it.
8. The Mandan assessor could not even recognize the homes with the current addresses because his photos were 20 years old. He thought they were not the same homes.
9. In Mandan a property exemption stayed on an exemption even after the exemption had expired.
10. The Dickinson assessor could not produce any documents because he did not know where to look for them.
11. In Mandan If your property on your block goes up and value and everyone else goes down in value, no one in the assessor’s office or your city commission can tell you why.
12. The city of the Mandan Mayor admits to adding a finished basement but not having it assessed.
13. Mandan continues to give exemptions despite the same developers having land come back for delinquent taxes.
14. In Jamestown a property was assessed without being looked at, actually this probably happens in every city.
15. The cow doesn’t jump over the moon and nurses can’t fly.
Those are just some of the reason I feel the property tax is very sick and needs to be put out of its’ misery, even a flying nurse I don’t think can make it better, because it keeps getting sicker and sicker.