Fines-and-fees system that helps fund court budget is unconstitutional, 5th Circuit rules
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Jim Martin, left, the Boulder County public trustee, goes over the previous week's foreclosure sales with Lowell Campbell, who assists the office in keeping track of the sales, on March 14. The office tasked with handling Boulder County's real estate transactions continues to decline as its financial crisis worsens and two of its three employees […]
Rotting wood, overgrown yards and debris littering the property are just a few of the characteristics of a property that the city of Gainesville Division of Code Enforcement has listed as “dangerous.” And yet the division's yearly budget of $ 27,000 is insufficient to raze the 74 properties and 86 total buildings on the department's […]
Jim Martin, left, Boulder County Public Trustee, goes over foreclosure sales in March with Lowell Campbell who assists the office in keeping track of the sales. Boulder County's public trustee will remain in the area under a deal struck with the county treasurer to float the office cash in the face of a budget crisis. […]
City Councilmembers raised difficult questions about tax breaks for developers at a time when costs are rising for residents at a Department of Revenue hearing on Tuesday, the last in a long series of agency appearances before the City Council. Across the political spectrum, councilmembers called on finance and revenue officials to consider reforms to […]
Call it buried tax treasure for homeowners: Deep inside the behemoth 654-page bipartisan budget bill recently signed into law by President Trump are little-noticed extensions of key tax-code benefits that expired in 2016, but now can be used for upcoming 2017 tax filings. Potentially the most popular is aimed at millions of buyers and owners […]