Understanding your property tax bill.
One bill, several different taxing entities, each set by a different elected body in its own budget process.
What makes up the bill
A New Jersey property tax bill is not one tax. County, municipal and school district budgets each determine part of what a property owner pays, and some towns add further levies such as a library or open space.
Those bodies are separate. They adopt their budgets separately, at different times, and none of them votes on the others’ spending.
How a rate is set
A town’s general tax rate is the total amount to be raised divided by the total assessed value of all taxable property in the town. It is expressed as a figure per $100 of assessed value. An individual bill is that rate applied to that property’s assessment.
Two things follow from that. A budget that stays flat can still produce a different bill if assessments change, and the reverse is also true.
Which part Council decides
Township Council adopts the municipal budget, which sets the municipal portion. It does not set the school levy or the county levy.
Finding Robbinsville’s current figures
The split changes year to year, so rather than print a figure that may be out of date, here is where the current one is published:
- Robbinsville Township — the State-required User Friendly Budget, which sets out the municipal portion.
- NJ DCA User Friendly Budget Database — the same budgets for every municipality, in one searchable table.
- Robbinsville Public Schools — the district budget and school tax levy.
- NJ Division of Taxation — general tax rates and how local property tax works.
- NJ property tax relief programs — eligibility for State relief.
This is a plain-English guide offered by the campaign, not an official statement of Robbinsville Township, the school district or the county. Where it disagrees with them, believe them, and please tell us so we can correct it.