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Atherton: Where do your property-tax payments go?

Original post made on Jan 18, 2017

Atherton is trying to help its residents better understand where their property tax payments go by adding a feature to the town's website that allows residents to look up exactly how much of their taxes go to which local agencies.

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Posted by Jack Hickey
a resident of Woodside: Emerald Hills
on Jan 18, 2017 at 10:10 am
Jack Hickey is a registered user.

I have proposed countywide expansion of MROSD funded by a similar percentage of the 1% General Property tax cited in the article above, or, detachment of MROSD from all of San Mateo County. The below history, which shows that coastside beneficiaries of the 2004 annexation pay no share of their 1% General Property tax to the district, supports my proposal.

History of MidPeninsula Regional Open Space district in San Mateo County. Dubious beginning. Web Link

Annexation of Coastside with no taxes imposed on annexed area. See page 8 at:
Web Link
"The annexation would not add any taxes to the new region, which is
considered a target area for land acquisition."

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