Commission shoots down low-income tax rebate Thursday Written by Geoffrey Plant on January 29, 2021
Worried about the county’s bottom line, Grant County commissioners voted 3-2 Thursday against a push to adopt an ordinance that would have allowed Grant County’s lowest-income property owners to take advantage of a tax rebate available under state statute.
Only Santa Fe and Los Alamos counties currently offer the rebate, and Grant County officials have repeatedly shot down the idea, which individual counties must choose to adopt, every other year at least since the early 2000s.
According to Section 7-2-14.3 of New Mexico tax law, ※In January of every odd-numbered year in which a county does not have in effect a [low-income property tax rebate] ordinance adopted pursuant to this subsection, the board of county commissioners of the county shall conduct a public hearing on the question of whether the