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What Local Residents
Get for Their Taxes
How much did Rappahannock County residents pay, on the average, in Federal, state and local taxes in the past year? What did they get back for these payments in the form of roads, schools, protection health care and other public works and services? This relationship, between tax burden and benefits, is the subject of a special national study just completed by the Tax Foundation, a non-profit research organization that serves as a watchdog on government finances.
Its figures show that the taxes paid and the benefits received do not balance each other except for families with net incomes of about $6,000.
Below that level, the benefits derived are greater than the costs. Above it, taxes exceed benefits. Residents of Rappahannock County, whose incomes averaged $4,969 per family in the past year, after deduction for personal taxes, had tax bills of approximately $1,50C per family, according to the Tax Foundation’s figures. This takes into account all taxes, direct ones and hidden ones, collected by all levels of government. In return for this outlay they received benefits estimated at $1,600 per family. For local families with net incomes of $10,000 taxes amounted to $2,830 in the year and the benefits received came to $2,190.
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