Tax disparity prompts secession talk
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August 5, 2015
A federal court ruling that exempted more than a third of the parcels in Fire District 13 from property tax has some taxpayers on the east side of Swinomish Channel wanting to switch fire districts.
The so-called “Great Wolf Lodge” ruling, which determined that homes on leased reservation land in Shelter Bay and in the Pull & Be Damned road neighborhoods are immune from county and state property tax, did not impact the budget for Fire District 13.
That’s because the agency simply shifted its entire tax burden to the remaining taxpayers.
Based on figures provided by the Skagit County A...
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