DENTON - Caroline County officials do not want to let slide an issue they began discussing during last spring's budget process creating a more logical tax differential.
The differential is a tax break provided to Caroline residents living in an incorporated municipality and is aimed at offsetting duplicated services provided by the towns and the county, namely trash collection and law enforcement.
In this year's budget, the commissioners reduced the trash portion of the differential from 6 cents for every $100 of assessed property value to 1 cent. They reasoned it would be unfair to keep giving town residents a break on trash when county residents were going to now be charged $100 to use the county's trash collection sites.
During the budget process, the commissioners questioned how the figures for the tax differential were determined and agreed a more concrete method in setting them needed to be established.
At their meeting Tuesday, Commission Vice President Larry Porter called for the commissioners to begin talks again on the tax differential. Porter said he did not want to let the subject fall by the wayside.
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