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Location big factor in how much you pay : News : Oswego Ledger-Sentinel : Hometown Newspaper for Oswego and Montgomery, IllinoisLocation big factor in how much you pay
| Rates vary throughout Kendall County; amount owed depends on local agencies
| by Kathy Farren
| 5/10/2012
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You may have built a home identical to your sister's, but if it's located in a different part of Kendall County- even if it is assessed at the same value as hers- you could have a far different real estate tax bill.
While every Kendall County real estate tax bill shows the same tax rates for the county and the county Forest Preserve District, rates vary considerably for other taxing districts across the county- from cities to school districts to township road districts.
A home with a market value of $225,000, assessed at $75,000 (one third of market value) could have tax bills as low as $5,215.83 in the village of Newark in southern Kendall County, to as much as $8,066.34 in the northeast corner of the county in the City of Aurora- a difference of $2,850.51.
The geographical distance between properties isn't the only thing affecting tax bills. Tax bills can be quite different on homes literally across the street from each other.
Take Poplar Drive in Yorkville, for example. South of Fox Road, on Poplar Drive in the unincorporated Fox Lawn Subdivision, homes have a total tax rate of $8.22232 per $100 of assessed valuation. North of Fox Road, in the River's Edge Subdivision within the City of Yorkville, the tax rate is $9.231, which includes the city and Yorkville Public Library tax.
The tax bill for a $225,000 home south of Fox Road would be $6,166.74 while a $225,000 home north of Fox Road in the city would see a tax bill of $6,923.25, a difference of $756.51.
Of course, city residents have more services. They have city sewer and water, can get a Yorkville Public Library card at no cost, and pay less for programs through the Yorkville Recreation Department. In unincor-porated areas, residents rely on private wells and septic systems, and must pay out of district fees to use the library and recreation programs.
The City of Yorkville's tax rate was one of the few in the county that was lower for 2011 taxes payable in 2012 than in the previous year. Last year's rate was .90196 while this year it fell to .70449 per $100 of assessed valuation.
The difference is the result of the city's refinancing Rob Roy sewer bonds. The repayment will take longer, but cost less each year.
Residents of the large, unincorporated Boulder Hill subdivision, are part of the Oswego School District, Oswegoland Park District and Oswego Library District, as are residents of the Village of Oswego.
Within the village, however, residents will also pay an additional tax rate of .14534. That means the hypothetical $225,000 house would have a tax bill of $7,157.16 in Boulder Hill and $7,266.17 inside the village of Oswego. The difference in tax bills for a $225,000 house would be $109.01 more in the village.
Rates for a single type of taxing district can vary considerably. Part of Kendall County is in the Waubonsee Community College district, with a tax rate of .47020 per $100 of assessed valuation, and part is in the Joliet Junior College district, with a tax rate of .24718.
Municipal tax rates in the county range from $1.76335 for the City of Aurora and $1.33767 for the City of Joliet, to zero for the small communities of Millbrook and Plattville which rely on the county for things such as police service or issuing building permits.
Fire district tax rates range from .88724 for the Plainfield Fire Protection District to .26153 for the Lisbon-Seward Fire Protection District in those two southern Kendall County townships.
School district taxes show a wide range, too. The lowest school tax rate in the county is Morris High School at $1.87502. Residents of that district also have to pay a grade school district rate. Those in the Morris High School district are also in the Saratoga Grade School District which has a tax rate of $2.7940. The combined rate of $4.66902 is lower than rates for unit (grade and high school combined) school districts in the county.
Plano School District's rate is the highest at $7.00433, Oswego's is $6.65728, and Yorkville's $5.91012, while Sandwich School District has a rate of $4.71938.
Even township rates vary- from NaAuSay Township's .05396 to Seward's .30032. Township road districts are shown separately on tax bills and range from Seward Township's .56074 to Oswego's .18705.
A sampling of some of the possible rate combinations, and resulting tax bills, that would apply to a $225,000 home in different places in Kendall County shows:
•Plano resident in Little Rock Township, $10.52284 tax rate, $7,892.13 tax bill.
•Yorkville resident in Bristol Township (north of the Fox River), $9.2962 rate, $6,972.15 tax bill.
•Joliet resident in NaAuSay Township, Plainfield School and Park Districts and Joliet Junior College district, $9.08887 tax rate, $6,816,65 tax bill.
•Newark residents in Big Grove Township in the Newark Sanitary District, Newark Grade and High School Districts, Joliet Junior College and Charles B. Phillips Library District, $6.95444 tax rate, $5,215.83 tax bill.
•Lisbon resident in Newark High School and Lisbon Grade School districts, $7.769.52 tax rate, $5,827.14 tax bill.
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