The Rindge tax rate is up by 26 cents this year.
The total tax rate for the town has been set at $27.76 per $100,000 of value, a 1 percent increase over last year’s rate of $27.50.
The majority of the increase relates to education expenses. The local education portion of the rate is up by 8 cents, rising from $16.37 to $16.45 this year.
The state education portion is also up, by more than ten cents, rising from $2.25 to $2.37, a 5.3 percent change.
The county portion of the tax is up five cents, increasing from $4.48 to $4.53
The town’s portion of the rate remains almost steady this year at $4.41, only increasing by a penny.
Under the new tax rate, a home valued at $200,000 will have a tax bill of $5,552. The same home, if valued at the same amount, would have paid $52 less in 2018.
— By ASHLEY SAARI