Article: MOST CNY PROPERTY TAX RATES STABLE; HIGHER SALES TAXES WILL ADD REVENUES. MADISON COUNTY PROPERTY TAXES LIKELY TO RISE.(Local)

Byline: Delen Goldberg Staff writer

Madison County residents are likely to be the only Central New Yorkers facing property tax increases next year.

Tax rates in Onondaga, Oswego and Oneida counties are staying the same or decreasing in 2005.

The reason: those counties raised their sales tax rates.

"It was only because of the imposition of the sales tax" that the county could decrease property taxes, said Brian Adey, assistant to Oneida County Executive Joe Griffo.

Property tax rates in Oneida and Onondaga counties each will fall by 20 cents next year. The tax rate in Oswego County is likely to stay the same when county ...

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