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Your PA Property Tax Bill, Explained

A short, plain-English guide to the numbers on your bill, from Jake Engle, a Pennsylvania licensed real estate broker here in southeastern PA.

Hi, I'm Jake. In over 10 years in real estate, I've never met a homeowner who knew what the "common level ratio" was. It's one of the biggest numbers behind your bill, so I wrote this guide to explain it, along with everything else on your bill, without the jargon.

What's inside

The three numbers behind every bill
Why you get three bills (county, town and school)
The common level ratio, the number almost nobody knows
Homestead, rebate, senior and veteran programs people forget to claim
What a countywide reassessment would do
A quick-reference page for your county

Written for homeowners in Montgomery, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Berks and Lehigh counties.

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