Tomorrow evening is the semiannual town meeting where I live, North Reading, Massachusetts. Everyone gathers in the high school auditorium to vote on matters of local governance.
In preparation for the budget discussions, I thought I’d take a look at the local property tax rates. The Massachusetts Department of Revenue keeps an online historical record of the rates for every municipality in the state. It took a little massaging in Excel, but here is a list of property tax rates from 2003-2009. Read the rest of this entry »

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