{"id":12533,"date":"2025-10-23T14:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/12533\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T14:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:56:11","slug":"scrantons-2026-operating-budget-set-to-not-include-tax-hike-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/12533\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton\u2019s 2026 operating budget set to not include tax hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761231371_887_image\" style=\"display:none\" alt=\"https:\/\/img.particlenews.com\/image.php?url=2jMPi5_15uH9xsU00\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 Good news for Scranton taxpayers: The city\u2019s 2026 operating budget will not include a tax hike.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Paige Cognetti announced the plan this week, saying strong fiscal management has allowed Scranton to hold tax rates steady for another year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.2822news.com\/news\/snap-recipients-receiving-scam-calls-for-information\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> SNAP recipients receiving scam calls for information <\/a><\/p>\n<p>This marks the fourth time since 2021 the city has kept taxes flat.<\/p>\n<p>City council will review the proposed budget by December 1, before adoption could happen by the middle of the month.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.2822news.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 Good news for Scranton taxpayers: The city\u2019s 2026 operating budget will not include&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2376,182,2375,178,180,179,9722,2374],"class_list":["post-12533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-breaking-news","tag-local-news","tag-newsbreak","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-scrantons-2026-operating-budget-set-to-not-include-tax-hike","tag-wbre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}