Did you pay your New Haven taxes? Some did not

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NEW HAVEN — Mayor Toni Harp recently proposed a $557 million budget for the next fiscal year and documents show the city has collected 95 percent of property taxes and other taxes to date this fiscal year.

The total collections to date at Jan. 31, 2019 — including interest earned — is $264 million, documents show. The fiscal year runs from July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019.

That figure represent collection of $220 million in real estate taxes, $27 million in personal property taxes, slightly less than $13 million in motor vehicle taxes and $1.9 million in supplemental motor vehicle taxes, documents show.

The amount in overall real estate taxes the city expects to collect is about $232 million $230 budgeted, $232 forecast), documents show. Overall, the city has forecast it will collect about $2 million in delinquent taxes, the documents show.

The city had collected $263 million in taxes for fiscal year 2018-19, documents show.

Harp’s proposed spending plan contains no tax increase and no layoffs.

The proposal budget fr fiscal year 2019-20 represents a 1.75 percent increase over the current year when the city raised the tax rate by 11 percent after anticipated state funding came up short.

Harp said there would be a slight increase, $750,000, to the Board of Education’s budget. The school board had asked for a $30 million increase