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  TN Amendment 2 (Property Tax Relief)
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Parents > United States > Tennessee > Constitutional Amendments > 2006 Amendments > Amendment 2
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Type Referendum
Filing Deadline 00, 0000 - 12:00pm Central
Polls Open November 07, 2006 - 06:00am Central
Polls Close November 07, 2006 - 07:00pm Central
Term Start November 08, 2006 - 07:00am
Term End 00, 0000 - 12:00pm
Turnout 28.82% Total Population
ContributorServo
Last ModifiedHomegrown Democrat November 05, 2011 09:23am
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Description Constitution Amendment #2

Shall Article II, Section 28, of the Constitution of the State of Tennessee be amended by inserting the following language immediately after the fourth paragraph:

By general law, the legislature may authorize the following program of tax relief:

(a) The legislative body of any county or municipality may provide by resolution or ordinance that:

(1) Any taxpayer who is sixty-five (65) years of age or older and
who owns residential property as the taxpayer’s principal place of residence shall pay taxes on such property in an amount not to exceed the maximum amount of tax on such property imposed at the time the ordinance or resolution is adopted;

(2) Any taxpayer who reaches the age of sixty-five (65) after the time the ordinance or resolution is adopted, who owns residential property as the taxpayer’s principal place of residence, shall thereafter pay taxes on such property in an amount not to exceed the maximum amount of tax on such property imposed in the tax year in which such taxpayer reaches age sixty-five (65); and

(3) Any taxpayer who is sixty-five (65) years of age or older, who purchases residential property as the taxpayer’s principal place of residence after the taxpayer’s sixty-fifth birthday, shall pay taxes in an amount not to exceed the maximum amount of tax imposed on such property in the tax year in which such property is purchased.
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Leaning Call: Yes (100.00%)
Weighted Call: Yes (100.00%)

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Certified Votes 1,361,682 (83.04%) 278,130 (16.96%)  
Margin0 (0.00%) -1,083,552 (-66.08%)  
Predict Avg.0.00% 0.00%  
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Entry Date 00/00/0006 00/00/0006  
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Oct 12, 2006 12:00pm Oops Incomplete amendment on ballot [TN Amendment 2]  Article Servo 

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