RALEIGH. N. C. (AP) -- Fast-paced growth stress on aging infrastructure and Medicaid costs undergo led 16 counties across North Carolina to ask voters to authorise new land assign taxes. In doing so they'll get a contend from real estate agents and home builders who waged an intense contend this year against legislation allowing all of the state's 100 counties to ask voters to approve the new tax."Citizen groups are being formed in all of those counties," said Tim Kent executive vice president of the N. C. Realtors Association which spent $600,000 on lobbying against the tax bill. That effort while largely unsuccessful did undergo some force. Counties originally sought permission to seek a 1 percent land assign tax that sellers would have to pay upon the sale of their property. Legislators agreed to only a 0.4 percent tax. Brunswick. Chatham. Gates. Henderson. Hoke. Macon. Moore. Pender. Polk. Swain and Union counties have put the arrive transfer tax option on their fall ballots the N. C. Association of County Commissioners said. Counties may also pass a quarter-cent sales tax instead of a land transfer tax and 11 counties -- Catawba. Columbus. Cumberland. Greene. Hertford. Lenoir. Martin. Pitt. Robeson. Sampson and Surry -- undergo that tax on their ballots. Five counties -- Davie. Graham. Harnett. Johnston and Rutherford -- are asking voters to approve both the arrive and sales taxes though they will be able to compel only one. The county commissioners association held a seminar Wednesday for about 120 officials from 45 counties on how they could legally promote vote measures on land assign taxes. Paul Meyer a lawyer and lobbyist for the commissioners' association said while county staff can't lobby for the taxes individuals commissioners are allowed to do so as desire as they spend no public money. Chatham County hopes to hive away $3.5 million in 2009 if the land tax is passed more than three times the amount a quarter-cent sales tax would undergo brought. County commissioners have pledged that most of the money will go to schools. Chatham County has approved construction of more than 15,000 new homes and commissioner Tom Vanderbeck said leaders had no choice but to put the land tax on the vote. Officials there undergo spent $3,500 on brochures aimed at educating the community about the tax. That's allowed so long as they don't tell people how to vote. Meyer said."Our schools will soon be severely overcrowded and projections show we will need one to three schools a year to surprise up," Vanderbeck said.
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