What is the Effective Tax Rate if the Assessment Ratio is 70% and the tax rate is $40 per thousand dollars of assessed value?

To determine the Effective Tax Rate, you first need to understand how the assessment ratio and tax rate work together. The Effective Tax Rate is derived from the tax rate applied to the property's assessed value, taking into account the assessment ratio.

In this scenario, the assessed value of the property is multiplied by the assessment ratio, which is 70%. This means that for every dollar of market value, only $0.70 is considered for tax purposes.

The tax rate is $40 per thousand dollars of assessed value. To convert this to a rate per dollar, you divide $40 by 1000, which gives you a tax rate of $0.04 per dollar of assessed value.

To find the Effective Tax Rate, you multiply the tax rate per dollar by the assessment ratio. So, you take $0.04 (the tax rate per dollar) and multiply it by 70% (or 0.70 when expressed as a decimal). The calculation is as follows:

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\text{Effective Tax Rate} = 0.04 \times 0.70 = 0.028

]

When you convert 0.028 to a percentage, you multiply by 100, resulting in 2.8%. Therefore