Episode 43

Understanding Vermont's potential 18.5% education tax increase (hint: it might be less)

December 8, 2023: Every year, the state Tax Commissioner releases a document outlining education taxes. The letter serves as a "pulse taking" to help school districts understand where taxes sit going into the budget-building season.

This year's letter highlighted a potential 18.5 percent increase. On this show, we try to help Vermonters recover from their collective sticker shock by breaking down the commission's letter and education spending. 

Read the Commissioner's letter and access other resources: http://tax.vermont.gov/press-release/FY2025-Education-Yield-Letter

Theme music by Red Heart the Ticker: http://rhtt.net

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Olga Peters

Producer and host Olga is a journalist by day and a screenwriter by night. On the Montpelier Happy Hour she combines a newshound's doggedness with a fiction writer's sense of "what if...".
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Emilie Kornheiser

Regular contributor Emilie Kornheiser represents Windham District 2-1 in the Vermont House of Representatives (that’s Brattleboro.) She always appreciates an opportunity to unpack the stories that drive us and hopes her gravestone will read “she asked good questions.” You can find more about her and her work in the legislature at emiliekornheiser.org.