Property Taxes

Brick Township home owners getting property tax breaks for buying locally with the Buy in Brick reward card can look forward to more ways to drive the rate down, as township officials look to add to the roughly 40 businesses that honor it.

A growing number of New Jersey municipalities are allowing property owners to use a credit card to pay their property tax bills.

Gov. Chris Christie will delivers his budget address Tuesday afternoon at the statehouse, in his first public appearance since coming off of the campaign trail.

Who is really responsible for New Jersey’s highest-in-the-nation property taxes?

Property taxes are consistently at or near the top of the list of concerns for residents, but there was not much discussion by state lawmakers about tackling the issue in 2015.

It should come as no surprise that politics was at play at the State House on Thursday just days before the Nov. 3 election in which all 80 seats in the Assembly are on the line.

It is no secret that New Jersey is home to some of the highest property taxes in the nation.  But an investigation by the state comptroller has found the state can potentially save millions of dollars annually for its property tax relief programs by fixing a blind spot in the sharing of data that is already being collected by local officials.

A year and a half after Sandy, most towns that were hard-hit by the superstorm are not being forced to raise taxes dramatically to cover their essential services and programs.

Tuesday was Tax Day, the deadline for filing income tax returns, but the top Republican in the state Assembly said every day is Tax Day in the high tax environment of New Jersey. He urged the legislature to get to work on a trio of tax-cutting bills.

When it comes to state taxes, New Jersey residents are among the most likely to complain that they are too high, a Gallup Poll shows.