As state lawmakers return to Lincoln tomorrow continuing to search for answers to Nebraska's property tax problem, one key lawmaker wants to end what she calls a tax "trick."

It's tied to a larger effort to control spending in city halls and schools across the state.

According to the head of the powerful Revenue Committee, State Senator Lou Ann Linehan of Elkhorn, by talking about "levies" instead of "taxes" local governments try to 'trick" voters into thinking their property taxes have not gone up when everyone knows they have.

So try this on for size: If local governments raise your taxes Linehan says they’d have to send you a letter making sure you know they’ve raised your taxes.

Last year by a vote of 47-to-nothing, state senators passed a bill forcing school boards and city councils to hold a separate public hearing and a separate vote if their budgets increased.

But Linehan is convinced some local governments poked the new law in the eye, so she plans to tighten it up.

Along with that "you raised my taxes letter" city councils and school boards would have to wait a few days after the public hearing before they could vote on the new budget.

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