Wyandotte County

Over the next few weeks, Wyandotte County commissioners will need to decide whether to freeze property tax revenues for a second consecutive year. And at least one local official said it’s time for the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, to stop playing games with taxpayers over the matter.

Government staff during a May 15 budget hearing weighed the ramifications of again not collecting additional property taxes from residents who have long cried for relief, a move referred to as “revenue neutral” that ultimately resulted in cross-government spending reductions and cuts to public services.

Revenue neutral means the Unified Government promised to not collect more money in property taxes this year than it did last year — even though the cos

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