Nevada Revised Statutes — Title 32 (Revenue and Taxation)
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 361.4547 — Nevada Tax Commission to certify combined tax rate to boards of county commissioners; procedure when additional levy of taxes ad valorem approved by voters of school district causes combined rate to exceed statutory limitation
NRS 361.4547 Nevada Tax Commission to certify combined tax rate to boards of
county commissioners; procedure when additional levy of taxes ad valorem
approved by voters of school district causes combined rate to exceed statutory
limitation.
1. After the approval of the final budgets
for the various local governments as defined in NRS 354.474 and their submission to the
Department, for examination and approval, the Nevada Tax Commission shall
certify to the board of county commissioners of each of the several counties
the combined tax rate necessary to produce the amount of revenue required by
the approved budgets, and shall certify that combined rate, to each of the
boards of county commissioners.
2. If the voters of a school district
approve an additional levy of taxes ad valorem pursuant to NRS 387.3285 or 387.3287 or the issuance of bonds or other
debt to be repaid by a levy of taxes ad valorem throughout the district, and
the Department finds for any fiscal year that the additional rate of tax
required for this purpose, when added to the rates of taxes ad valorem authorized
to be levied in the district by other local governments and the State for that
fiscal year would cause the combined rate within the territory of any other
local government to exceed the rate allowed by NRS 361.453 , the Department shall
determine:
(a) The amounts by which the proposed levies for
all of the other local governments whose rates affect the territory have
increased from the previous year; and
(b) The portion of the amount by which the
combined rate would exceed the rate allowed by NRS 361.453 that is directly attributable
to the additional levy approved by the voters for the school district.
3. If the Department determines that any
portion of the amount by which the combined rate would exceed the rate allowed
by NRS 361.453 is directly attributable
to the additional levy approved by the voters for the school district, the
school district shall:
(a) Reduce for the fiscal year the amount levied
pursuant to NRS 387.3285 or 387.3287 , or both, if the proceeds of the
levy are not already committed for debt service, by the amount determined by
the Department to be directly attributable to the school district;
(b) Transfer to the other local government whose
rate overlaps in that territory an amount of money, determined by the
Department to be directly attributable to the school district, to reduce the
combined rate to the rate allowed; or
(c) Determine and implement a combination of the
methods of reduction allowed by paragraphs (a) and (b) that will result in the
reduction of the combined rate by the amount determined by the Department to be
directly attributable to the school district.
4. If a school district determines that it
will proceed pursuant to paragraph (b) or (c) of subsection 3, the Department
shall calculate the transfers so as to minimize the total amount transferred,
and each local government to which a transfer is made shall correspondingly
reduce its rate and file a revised budget within the time allowed by subsection
6 of NRS 361.455 . The amounts
transferred must be paid in installments, within 30 days after each installment
of property taxes is due.
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