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VT4VT Has Grown Over the Last Few Months. So Has Your Tax Bill.
A reflection on our May warning, The Coming Property Tax Collapse in Vermont, what we understood then, what the records have taught us since, and why the larger reassessment story is still ahead.
Also on Substack ↗Proposal 3: Does Labor Really Need a Constitutional Amendment in Vermont?
How Did We Get Here — and Why?
Also on Substack ↗Vermont Asked Why People Leave. It Got an Answer.
In 2016, a legislative study examined what caused young Vermonters to leave
Also on Substack ↗UPDATE AND RALLY ALERT 10 OCTOBER 2026 Vermont State House: Do We Surrender and Run—or Stay and Fight?
Vermont will not change because we complain about it. It will change only if Vermonters participate in governing it.
Also on Substack ↗Vermont Has Reached the Spending Limit
So They’re Maxing Out Yours. Time to Take Your Card Back.
Also on Substack ↗Vermont’s Housing Crisis: Fact or Paid Fiction?
Part III — Updated: Follow the Laws, Taxes and Public Money Updated September 29, 2026
Also on Substack ↗VT4VT Supplemental of Historical Analysis BEFORE ACT 60: THE FIRST TRANSFORMATION
How Vermont Went From Town Representation to Population Representation VT4VT — Vermont’s Housing Crisis: Fact or Paid Fiction? Part IV Historical Analysis — Where Did It Begin?
Also on Substack ↗Vermont’s Housing Crisis: Fact or Paid Fiction? Evening Edition — Follow the Laws
Part III — Follow the Laws, Taxes and Public Money
Also on Substack ↗Vermont’s Housing Crisis: Fact or Paid Fiction? Afternoon Edition — Follow the Property Tax
Part III — Follow the Laws, Taxes and Public Money
Also on Substack ↗Vermont’s Housing Crisis: Fact or Paid Fiction? Morning Edition — Follow the Money
Part III — Follow the Laws, Taxes and Public Money
Also on Substack ↗I Am Not a Charity or a Blank Check
When the Common Good Comes With a Tax Bill VT4VT Commentary | FY2027 Vermont Property Tax Cycle
Also on Substack ↗A Disturbing Trend Is Emerging in Vermont’s Grand Lists
Vermont is reassessing utility and commercial property too. Those higher costs do not stop at the property line.
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Also on Substack ↗Stockbridge's 2026 Assessments Nearly Doubled.
Its Tax Rates Fell. Its Property-Tax Levy Still Rose About 22%
Also on Substack ↗Vermont’s Reassessment Numbers Are In. We Need Your Help.
Forty towns have reassessed, but 91 surveys are not enough. VT4VT needs taxpayer reports and complete municipal grand lists to document what is happening across Vermont.
Also on Substack ↗Colchester Reassessment: The Grand List More Than Doubled. What Happened to Property Taxes, Utilities?
VT4VT Town Reassessment Report — Colchester, Vermont Report ID: VT4VT-FY2027-002
Also on Substack ↗The Myth of the “Vermont Second Home”
There is a problem with the way Vermont talks about nonhomestead property.
Also on Substack ↗Vermont Has Already Changed the Rules. What Happens to Your Property Next?
Over the last three years, Vermont has passed five major laws that affect property owners in different but increasingly connected ways.
Also on Substack ↗Vermont’s Housing Debate Has Become an Exercise in Economic Fantasy
A recent article by Dylan Morse, The Vermont Nobody Wants to Talk About, captures one of the central failures of Vermont politics.
Also on Substack ↗Act 68: Just What Vermont Needed During an Affordability Crisis
How Act 68 turned a previously obscure property-valuation office into one of the most powerful unelected positions in Vermont government - leaving property owners exposed to COVID-era reassessments.
Also on Substack ↗Addison's Grand List Is Out, and the Numbers Are Hard to Ignore. Is This the Beginning of What's to Come?
Addison's 2026 reappraisal increased the town's total assessed property value by nearly 85%, providing another early look at how Vermont's statewide reassessment effort is reshaping municipal grand li
Also on Substack ↗Vermonters for Vermont (VT4VT) Launches New Website and Property Tax Calculator
A new resource built to help Vermonters understand their property taxes, reassessments, and the public data behind them.
Also on Substack ↗New Haven's Grand List Is Out, and the Numbers Are Hard to Ignore. Is This the Beginning of What's to Come?
Property Values Up 128% as Vermont’s Act 68 Reassessment Mandate Reaches New Haven
Also on Substack ↗Submit Vermont Town Grand list assessments here
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Also on Substack ↗The origin story for VT4VT
.... one day in May at the Vermont Statehouse. The friday the week before the Vermont legislators closed the session.
Also on Substack ↗Vermont Reassessment Survey Documents Reported Assessment Increases Up to 343% and Tax Bill Increases Over 201%
Responses from 29 Vermont towns suggest reassessments may be affecting communities very differently than many property owners expected.
Also on Substack ↗Understanding Your Vermont Property Tax
If you know your property's assessed value, there doesn't have to be any guessing about what your property tax bill might look like.
Also on Substack ↗The LAND Act: What Vermont Needs Now
The LAND Act 2026 is a working proposal and discussion draft. It has not been filed as legislation. The purpose of this article is to explain the reasoning behind the proposal and the problems it is i
Also on Substack ↗Vermont Reassessment Survey
Anonymous survey. Vermonters are reporting assessment increases of 100% or more. Help us track property assessment and property tax changes across Vermont. No names. No addresses. No parcel numbers.
Also on Substack ↗Vermont's Rural Cost of Reassessment
How Vermont Fails to Protect Longtime Homeowners When a $700,000 Farm Sale Influences Assessments Across an Entire Rural Community
Also on Substack ↗The Rest of Vermont Is Not a Suburb of Chittenden County
“The Collision Between Post-COVID Property Values and Vermont’s Centralized Education Tax System”
Also on Substack ↗**EMINENT DOMAIN ALERT**
Have you read this? Let’s talk about it today at the Statehouse!
Also on Substack ↗Over-Regulated Vermont
Act 250. Act 181. Current use penalties. Centralized education taxes. Mandatory reassessments.
Also on Substack ↗The Coming Property Tax Collapse in Vermont - A STATE IN EMERGENCY
Vermont’s reassessment and statewide education tax structure are colliding with inflated post-COVID property values in a way that many rural residents believe will financially destroy Vermonters
Also on Substack ↗Where did all the tulips go?
Failed Priorities Once Again at the State House — In Real Time
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