The Columbia Heart Beat

I want what they're having!

 

COLUMBIA, Mo 5/8/19 (Feature) --   "Let me tell you about the very rich," the writer F. Scott Fitzgerald said.  "They are different from you and me."

Nowhere is that more true than at property tax reassessment time, when the rich pay about what they always have while you and I pay more -- sometimes, a lot more.  About 44,000 Boone County residents will pay an average eight percent more in property taxes this year, the Columbia Missourian reported . 

But many of the county's richest people won't pay more, County Assessor records show.  They also get a prime tax dodge called the "fake farmland assessment rate" for pricey development property the law says should pay tax at ...