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Reliable Facts Give Context during Town Meeting Season
Sudbury's actual tax rate, in context
When considering complicated financial issues and decisions about them it is important to have accurate information and a sense of context. It is easy to go astray if the source of your information is not based on complete and accurate facts, but is based on opinions and vague ideas.
A recent posting on this bulletin board states that Sudbury is among the top ten towns in MA for residential tax rates. The MA Department of Revenue's Division of Local Services recently published a report. As of April 27, 2017 all but one of MA towns had approved their tax rates for fiscal year 2017. The information can be found at:
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The information in the table below is drawn from the MA Department of Revenue's Division of Local Services report titled Communities with Approved Tax Rates for FY 2017 as of 4/27/2017.
| Residential | Commercial/Industrial | |
| MA median | $ 15.60 | $ 17.92 |
| Sudbury | $ 17.74 | $ 25.01 |
| Sudbury's rank among 352 towns | 108 th | 78 th |
The post that had such an inaccurate claim at its beginning continues with many claims that are unsupported with source citations. I am hopeful that Sudbury voters will make their choices on information that is based on reliable sources
