The Coplay (Whitehall-Coplay) Borough Council recently adopted a preliminary budget which will increase property taxes 15.8 percent! That would bring the Coplay Borough mill rates to 11 mills!!!

Thank goodness the Whitehall-Coplay school district taxes are some of the lowest in the Lehigh Valley. But the borough taxes are helping to to take away from that advantage.

When you are paying property taxes, you have the county, the local (the borough or city), and the school district taxes. The school taxes are by far the biggest slice of that pie, but when the other slices get bigger it makes the whole pie bigger to pay (or swallow!)

Right now, Whitehall-Coplay school district is one of the best values in the Lehigh Valley when looking for a home. But 11 mills is absolutely outrageous and if it is that high now, what will it be in a few years. We must stay on top of our boroughs, towns and school districts to make sure Lehigh Valley property taxes stay at a fair and reasonable level

As it stands now, Allentown, and Easton school districts (which includes Palmer Twp and Forks Twp) are spiraling out of control. A $200k home could cost as much as 4-5k a year! The same home in Whitehall-Coplay, or Northampton School district will cost you half that in annual property taxes.

It seems the worse the area, the worse the schools, the higher the taxes. What sense does that make? But when you allow small towns like Coplay to raise taxes almost 16 percent in one year, soon there will be no place to buy a home with affordable property taxes in the Lehigh Valley.

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