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The Maricopa County Community College District is preparing to sue its own county over a property tax dispute and said it could be forced to raise tuition or cut programs.“It’s certainly not our preferred choice,” said the board’s president Susan Bitter Smith. “We spent a lot of time attempting to get information and trying to work with the county.”But when that didn’t work, Bitter Smith said the Maricopa Community Colleges made a difficult decision.
In all, the county treasurer estimates it will have to pay back $329 million in property tax refunds. Hundreds of millions of dollars from all county taxing districts, including school districts, fire districts, cities and towns are on the hook to repay.The county said 164,000 property owners will receive refunds from that bucket of more than $300 million.
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