WORKING TO REDUCE MONETARY WASTE,
ABUSE, AND CORRUPTION IN NASSAU'S
SPECIAL TAXING DISTRICTS
THE PROBLEM
Nassau County has over 200 special taxing districts - tiny, single-service taxing bodies abusing YOU the taxpayer through fiscal waste, unfair taxation, and corruption. No one oversees special districts. They make their own rules to suit their own interests, run their own elections, and are accountable to no one – not even the taxpayers!
THE SOLUTION
YOU are the solution! Help end special taxing district abuse by joining this campaign. Through the passage of legislation and through grassroots organizing in your district, we can create tax savings, a fairer tax structure, and eliminate corruption in your community.
ACTION!
YOU can end special taxing district abuse in your community! Join us by contacting Serena Liguori, Government Efficiency Project Coordinator, at serena@lipc.org.
TOGETHER we'll make
the change we need!
SPECIAL DISTRICT MAP
How does Nassau County make room for its nearly-300 special taxing districts? By piling them on top of each other! This map illustrates the disaster and confusion of TOO MANY taxing districts!
Nassau’s nearly 300 special taxing districts mean layer-upon-layer of tax-enforcing government and a system that makes understanding the tax system nearly impossible. The proof is in this map — watch as Nassau’s three towns are layered over and over with special taxing districts.
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WHY ARE OUR PROPERTY TAXES SO HIGH?
The Nassau County Government Efficiency Project is working to reduce monetary waste, abuse, and corruption in Nassau’s special taxing districts. In Nassau County, we are unfairly burdened by the nation’s second-highest property taxes.
Everyday hard-working families struggle to make ends meet due to high Nassau County property taxes. If you live in a special taxing district, much of the property tax you pay goes to these single-service taxing entities such as: water, fire, sanitation, sewer, lighting, library, etc. The Towns of Oyster Bay and North Hempstead each have roughly 50 taxing districts, and the Town of Hempstead is burdened with over 100 taxing districts.
Many special taxing districts are charging you excessive tax rates for their operations which include: large salaries, expense accounts, and generous insurance and retirement packages. Audits have found some huge disparities in taxing districts, some of which are run inefficiently and without proper rules, regulations or adequate oversight. Unfortunately, many of these districts use millions of your tax dollars without a governing body overseeing their actions.
Special District Reform is Needed. Consolidation would combine special taxing districts into existing entities to save you money, eliminate abuse, and consolidate individually operated districts. This can be done while still maintaining the local services and quality you deserve. For example, consolidating the Town of Hempstead’s special sanitation districts into the Town of Hempstead’s Department of Sanitation would reduce taxpayer costs and produce a more efficiently run sanitation department.
The only way consolidation can happen is with your help.
Together we will fight for a more transparent, efficient government and lower taxes.
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