Residential and commercial property owners in New Bedford will pay higher property taxes even though the tax rate has been reduced.
New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell confirms that property values will be reassessed upwards and that means higher tax bills...
Fairhaven residents and business owners will be paying more total property taxes in 2017, and that's a good sign officials say.
At Monday's meeting, the Fairhaven Board of Selectmen voted to lower the tax rate by 14 cents per $1,000 valuation for residential properties, and dropped commercial properties by 18 cents...
The average tax bill in New Bedford wont see much change after Monday's setting by the City Council of the annual tax rate. Businesses will a slight break for the second year in a row, with the commercial rate being set at $29.55 per thousand dollars of valuation...