The TIF Authority is the governmental body that created the TIF Area. Usually a city, it could also be a county, a community college, or rural improvement zone.

The amount of increment taxes depends on the relative proportion of base value to increment value in the TIF Area, and also on whether or not the TIF Authority requests all of the available value in the TIF increment taxes in a given year. You can see the distribution of our taxes on your tax bill.

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1. What is a TIF Area?
2. What is the difference between a TIF Area and a TIF Tax District?
3. How is a TIF Area created?
4. How do taxes in a TIF Area work?
5. What happens to the “base” taxes and the “increment” taxes?
6. Who is the “TIF Authority”?
7. The TIF Authority is the governmental body that created the TIF Area. Usually a city, it could also be a county, a community college, or rural improvement zone.
8. Do all of the taxes on the increment value go to pay TIF debt?
9. Are my taxes higher because my property is in a TIF Area?
10. What qualifies to be paid from taxes on increment value?