{"id":178666,"date":"2026-04-28T22:11:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T22:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/178666\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T22:11:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T22:11:18","slug":"proposed-east-penn-budget-would-raise-taxes-for-average-homeowner-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/178666\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed East Penn budget would raise taxes for average homeowner | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EMMAUS, Pa. &#8211; Taxes may go up in the East Penn School District next fall.<\/p>\n<p>Monday night, the school board adopted a preliminary budget for the 2026-2027 school year.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed $213 million spending plan includes a 4.1% property tax hike.<\/p>\n<p>That would raise the bill by about $194 a year for the average home.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the property tax rebate program will continue.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the tax hike <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/area\/lehighvalley\/lehigh-county\/allentown-area\/east-penn-school-board-adopts-budget-with-4-1-tax-increase\/article_8a911963-161c-42fd-ae83-91f35aa16c98.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EMMAUS, Pa. &#8211; Taxes may go up in the East Penn School District next fall. Monday night, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,222,1416,4482,18524,79801,17259,17057,9346],"class_list":["post-178666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-budget","tag-east-penn-school-district","tag-education-funding","tag-property-tax","tag-property-tax-rebate","tag-public-finance","tag-school-board","tag-tax-hike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178666","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=178666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}