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Article: Watching your money: City residents don't provide majority of county revenue.

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Messenger-Inquirer (Owensboro, KY)
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March 11, 2007
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Byline: James Mayse

Mar. 11--Owensboro residents are also residents of Daviess County, which means city dwellers pay property taxes to finance the operations of Daviess Fiscal Court. In fiscal year 2006-07, city residents will pay $2.2 million in real estate taxes to Fiscal Court, county Treasurer Tony Sook said last week. That's not quite half of the $4.6 million the county will collect in property taxes for the fiscal year.

Are city residents paying taxes for services Fiscal Court provides mainly to county residents? No, county officials say, for two reasons.

Real estate taxes make up only a small portion of the Fiscal Court's ...

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