Vermont Voters Reject Property Tax Relief for Veterans Group

In Winooski, Vermont, veterans who are members of the Regular Veterans Association will continue to pay to support their local school system after a ballot measure that would have enabled them to exempt this portion of their property taxes was defeated on Tuesday [1]. While at first this may seem perfectly reasonable, it is, at the least, unusual, since members of Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion are exempt from these same statutes. However, when taxpayers learned they would be picking up responsibility for an additional $6,575 in school property taxes, they voted the measure down. In response, the Regular Veterans are “weighing their options” and hoping to avoid paying an approximately $5,100 property tax bill instead.
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[1]http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20101104/NEWS02/11040312/Winooski-rejects-property-tax-relief-for-veterans-group