2012 Property tax "relief" from gambling revenues
On May 1, 2012,
the Pennsylvania Department of Education website posted a chart of estimated
slots-funded individual school property tax reductions for Pennsylvania
homeowners in 2012. Depending on your school district, your reduction
will be between $25 and $632; the statewide average is $186.
Results for some counties are not yet available because homestead data has not been received from those counties. The charts will be updated when additional information becomes available. The chart is here as an Acrobat (PDF) file or here as an Excel spreadsheet.
Again, this is only an estimate. Each school district will determine the actual amount of property tax relief for each homestead and farmstead after it determines its 2012-2013 real estate tax rate. In many cases your “relief” will be less than your increase in school property tax this year and will be nowhere near the 10% reduction touted by the state.
Further information from the Pennsylvania Department of Education is here.
Please note that:
- You will not receive the reduction if you have not applied
for the homestead exemption.
- Every homeowner in each school district receives the same amount of
relief.
- You will not receive a check for this relief; it will be deducted from
your school property tax bill.
To compare this year's estimated relief with the estimate for last year, the 2011 results are here as a PDF file.
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