An interesting subject on the Bl-Auburn Times blog was tossed in at the end of that post, citing an Auburn Police Department estimate of the "Business Hours Population" in Auburn being five times that of the resident population. Certainly a good argument for retaining Auburn's dual tax rate...
I could not, however, find such a statistic for Worcester. But I do think that compiling a "Business Hours Population" statistic for Worcester would be one of the more essential sets of data that would be needed to discuss the proposition of changing or retaining the dual tax rate here.
So far, the only impetus I see for changing to a single rate in Worcester is government's insatiable revenue hunger, and business's desire to pay less taxes.
The deliberations should be based more on objective data than on those two subjective whims.
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2 comments:
If memory serves, circa 2000 the population of Manhattan was 1.5 million, and the daytime population was 5 million. That's a smaller ratio than Auburn!
Yes Manhattan has a smaller ratio... and I suspect that the raio may be even smaller for Worcester.
Oddly enough, it may well be that Worcester's "business hours population" is actually smaller than the resident population, in which case a single property tax rate would be very difficult to argue against.
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