Posted on 06/04/2009 5:33:12 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
LEE COUNTY — The Lee County School District is supported with taxes but is now on the list of property owners who have failed to pay 2008 taxes on time.
According to the Lee County Tax Collector Web site, the district has not paid taxes on five of the 126 properties it owns, the largest of which is a $34,000 bill for 2008 taxes on an undeveloped property in Cape Coral. The taxes owed are non-ad valorem taxes — for services such as wastewater treatment — and not the same kind of taxes at the heart of a discussion in the Lee County School District to increase the property tax to fund education.
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Well, this is just plain stupid. Why should Lee County Schools pay taxes to Lee County? Won’t the schools just go to the commissioners and ask for $34,000, which comes out of general funds and give the $34,000 to the tax collector’s office who puts the money in general funds?
“Why should Lee County Schools pay taxes to Lee County?”
I had similar thought.
Perhaps it’s taxes from the county that are owed to the STATE?
My larger point is that things are starting to spin out of control:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/us/politics/05states.html?_r=2&hp
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