$1.41M in Available Revenue
Stockbridge has approximately $1.41 million per year in available revenue sitting in tools its town meeting and select board already have statutory authority to use. Four independent compliance streams — personal property tax on second-home furnishings, vehicle excise on Stockbridge-garaged vehicles registered elsewhere, boat excise on locally-moored boats, and the short-term-rental community-impact fee under M.G.L. c.64G §3D — carry a combined annual gap of $0.3M to $0.9M (a strict-universe floor), each one backed by parcel-level outreach candidate lists the database can produce on demand. The §5C residential exemption — available at up to 35% today, and up to 50% should Stockbridge accept its December 2024 Seasonal Community designation — shifts tax burden from year-round homeowners onto the 59.7% of residential value owned by non-residents, without raising a dime in new revenue. Unused Proposition 2½ capacity adds another $1.13M of headroom the town has never tapped. Combined, these levers cut $640 off a typical $1 million primary-resident tax bill while generating the capacity to fund the town's priorities without pricing its homeowners out of the market. This is what the profile is for: if your town's property taxes are too high, this is the tool that surfaces the new sources of revenue that keep your community affordable for the people who actually live there.