What kinds of changes have there been to fees and taxes?
Taxes for the average resident should be about the same or lower, but residents will pay taxes in different ways than before annexation. Collection of property taxes, sales taxes, and utility taxes starts on March 1, 2008. Business owners are now responsible for licensing their business with the city, and residents are responsible to pay the city’s surface water utility rates. Some types of taxes, such as the city’s utility tax, will be new to residents and will be billed through the utility provider (such as cable television or electricity), but the total amount that each household pays in taxes will be roughly the same or slightly lower.
