“Three percent is not a modest tax increase, if you own a $100,000 home in the city of Buffalo, that means an extra $300 a year.”
Byron Brown
Mayor of Buffalo. in a debate. Claim dated 9 Sep 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
Increasing the existing tax rate by 3 percent would lead to an eventual increase of about $30 for a home assessed at $100,000.
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In short
Byron Brown (Mayor of Buffalo) made this claim around 9 September 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 28 October 2021, 49 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Byron Brown has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ7Dh02S7FQ
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