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Thousands of new homes popping up, but you wouldn’t know it from property tax bills

Sarasota Bay
Sarasota Bay ttompkins@bradenton.com

As I drive around Manatee County – and I urge everyone to do it — I see all the thousand of new homes being built. And I ask myself, with all the additional property tax and sales tax from all the new people, why is my property tax not dropping for 2018?

John Williamson

Ellenton

This story was originally published November 27, 2017 at 10:27 AM with the headline "Thousands of new homes popping up, but you wouldn’t know it from property tax bills."

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