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TN Amendment 2 (Property Tax Relief)

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> United States > Tennessee > Constitutional Amendments > 2006 Amendments > Amendment 2

Office

Referendum

Honorific

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Type

Referendum

Filing Deadline

00, 0000 - 12:00pm Central

Polls Open

November 07, 2006 - 06:00am Central

Polls Close

November 07, 2006 - 07:00pm Central

Term Start

November 08, 2006 - 07:00am

Term End

00, 0000 - 12:00pm

Turnout

28.82% Total Population

Contributor

Servo

Last Modified

Homegrown Democrat November 05, 2011 09:23am

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Description

Constitution Amendment #2

Shall Article II, Section 28, of the Constitution of the State of Tennessee be amended by inserting the following language immediately after the fourth paragraph:

By general law, the legislature may authorize the following program of tax relief:

(a) The legislative body of any county or municipality may provide by resolution or ordinance that:

(1) Any taxpayer who is sixty-five (65) years of age or older and
who owns residential property as the taxpayer’s principal place of residence shall pay taxes on such property in an amount not to exceed the maximum amount of tax on such property imposed at the time the ordinance or resolution is adopted;

(2) Any taxpayer who reaches the age of sixty-five (65) after the time the ordinance or resolution is adopted, who owns residential property as the taxpayer’s principal place of residence, shall thereafter pay taxes on such property in an amount not to exceed the maximum amount of tax on such property imposed in the tax year in which such taxpayer reaches age sixty-five (65); and

(3) Any taxpayer who is sixty-five (65) years of age or older, who purchases residential property as the taxpayer’s principal place of residence after the taxpayer’s sixty-fifth birthday, shall pay taxes in an amount not to exceed the maximum amount of tax imposed on such property in the tax year in which such property is purchased.

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