Using this Tax Bill Impact Calculator

This tool is designed to provide residents an overview on the property tax impacts of the proposed Burlington High School Project that is before voters at the ballot box on November 15, 2025. This tax impact calculator relies on several assumptions listed below – actual results will vary on a number of factors not currently known to town officials including future property valuations, composition of the town’s taxpayers, borrowing costs, and other external market conditions.  

This calculator only provides the estimate for incremental property tax increases associated with the potential high school project, and does not account for any other property tax impacts associated with the annual operating and capital budgets of the town and school department.

This calculator is most effective when using your current assessed property value. To find your assessed value, search by your name or address using the Town of Burlington Property Assessment Database.

Assumptions 

• This calculator relies on FY2025 valuation data. As property values change, it could impact the amount individual taxpayers will pay for the debt service associated with the potential high school project based on updated assessed values and how the tax levy is shared with commercial taxpayers.
• Assumes a project cost of $333M, funded through a debt exclusion vote approved by the town at the ballot box.
• This assumes a borrowing model consisting of five debt issuances over five years: one initial $13M issuance and four $80M issuances, totaling $333M. The model uses a 5% interest rate, for a term of 25 years for each debt issuance. Actual ramp up of payments may vary due to cash flow needs of the project. Actual peak payments may vary with interest rates  or bond duration at the time of borrowing. Borrowing strategies are not yet determined.
• The calculator assumes no changes in the levy share by classification of property. When there are changes in the components of how the tax levy is composed by taxpayers, it could impact how much a certain class of property pays toward the overall levy. For example, if there is historic growth in residential property values, and stagnant commercial valuation – residential taxpayers, as a whole, could pay more of the overall tax levy, and this could change the results of this tool.
• The proportion of tax bill chart (which appears at the bottom of the page when a value is inputted) is calculated using assumptions in the growth of the average single family tax bill.