{"id":45322,"date":"2026-08-28T10:56:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T15:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=45322"},"modified":"2026-08-28T10:59:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T15:59:21","slug":"property-tax-reduced-for-effingham-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/45322-property-tax-reduced-for-effingham-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Property Tax Reduced For Effingham Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Effective January 1, 2026, the City\u2019s portion of the property tax bill for City of Effingham <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">residents was largely eliminated by the City Council to provide property tax relief to the <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">residents of the city.\u00a0 Only a nominal amount of tax levy remains on the City\u2019s portion of <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the tax bill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Mayor and City Commissioners request that each property owner in the City review their tax bill to ensure that their property taxes have been adjusted to reflect this action by the City.\u00a0 If you have questions, please contact City Administrator Steve Miller at 217-342-5300 x 5314.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective January 1, 2026, the City\u2019s portion of the property tax bill for City of Effingham residents was largely eliminated by the City Council to provide property tax relief to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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