What everyone's paying in city property taxes, one by one
Baltimore's new release of government data at OpenBaltimore lets you see how much the owners of each property are paying without having to look it up one at a time at the city's property-tax lookup site.
It's a huge file, the sort requiring a database manager such as Access to analyze, but you can page through the display on the site itself and do some sorting there as well. Top amount: $4.3 million -- that's for an office tower. Lowest: thousands of $0s for religious, nonprofit and government properties.
Also at OpenBaltimore: parking fines, 311 calls and a lot more.
Find something intriguing? Please share.
I'm not trying to make this a property-tax week, by the way. I'll have some completely non-tax-related topics for you soon.
Posted by Jamie Smith Hopkins at 3:40 PM | Permalink
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Categories: Housing stats, Property taxes
Categories: Housing stats, Property taxes
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Jamia, PLEASE don't apologize for making it a property tax week!! It's an enormously important issue for Baltimore. Let's make it a tax month!
Posted by: lisa | January 26, 2011 3:48 PM
Glad it's not boring!
Posted by: Jamie Smith Hopkins | January 26, 2011 3:51 PM
Ugh. I don't understand how my city property tax can be so high, yet my city is so unkempt.
Posted by: Genny | January 26, 2011 5:44 PM
Thanks for the tip about this website. I also looked at the speed camera tickets. Last year over 390,000 fixed speed camera tickets were issue costing taxpayers close to $16,000,000 in fines. Way to go Baltimore
Posted by: OverTheTop | January 26, 2011 6:22 PM
Genny: Property taxes are only one source of the income required to pay for the various services needed.
This is why the shift to promoting a far higher percentage of income tax paying (ve service receiving) citizens is so important.
HTH
Posted by: MrRational | January 26, 2011 7:35 PM
Why is everyone so quick to compliment and defend the city. How about doing a better job or running a tighter ship?
Posted by: J. Smith | January 27, 2011 4:17 PM
Jamie, I agree with the first response. Please continue to cover this issue. The city property tax rates is a significant issues that really effect a lot of people. Thank you so much for bringing attention to this issue.
Posted by: Bayview is next up | January 28, 2011 12:08 PM
I agree it is important! Please share as much tax info as you get can a hold of as I want to know where the money is going!
Posted by: Peter Wallace | January 31, 2011 6:40 PM
I am curious as to how Baltimore ranks as far as having non-profits. Do other cities tax thier non-profits? And does Baltimore have more non-profits then most cities ?
I would be inclined to think that we do.We are close to Washington Dc, but have cheaper real estate. So im guessing that a lot of national and international non-profits would choose Baltimore for that reason .
But i am curious to know how we rank as far as amounts of non-profits?
Posted by: Pete from Highlandtown | January 31, 2011 11:56 PM
Hi, Pete -- I've seen comparisons of nonprofits vs. for-profits county by county in Maryland (http://releases.jhu.edu/2010/01/11/nonprofit-job-growth-in-maryland-defies-recession/), but I haven't come across a U.S. cities analysis. There's probably something out there, though.
Posted by: Jamie Smith Hopkins | February 1, 2011 9:14 PM
Please, make it property tax Month!
I agree that it is an enormous issue for many of us.
If you continue to update about the elected officials and candidates stances on lowering the tax rates...that's great, too!
Posted by: JuanitaBeasley | February 8, 2011 3:59 PM