The claim
A 220 percent property tax increase
“The council raised your property taxes 220 percent.”
Seen: Yard signs, petition sheets and city Facebook groups, June to August 2026.
It was true of a decision that has since been changed or repealed.
220.88% was noticed in June and never adopted. The rate that survives is 0.000900: 69.81% over the certified rate, on the city's own line, which is about a tenth of a property tax bill.
The numbers
What’s true
The number was real and the city printed it. The Truth-in-Taxation notice mailed in June proposed 0.001700 against a 0.000530 certified rate and stated the increase as 220.88%: a rise in the city's budgeted property tax revenue over the prior year, excluding eligible new growth.
What changed
Two things. The figure is three rates out of date: the council adopted 0.001500 on August 6, repealed it on August 18, and adopted 0.000900 in its place. And it was never a percentage of anybody's tax bill (it is a percentage of the city's own levy, which is one of seven lines on an Eagle Mountain bill), the fourth-largest of them on today's bill, and the third once the new rate is levied.
More detail
On the notice's own average home ($488,000 of market value, $268,400 taxable after Utah's 55% primary-residence exemption), the noticed rate would have added $314.03 a year. The rate in force adds $99.31.
On that same home the city's line goes from about $143 a year to about $242, inside a total bill of about $2,517 at 2025 rates. That is the city's share moving from roughly 5.7% of the bill to roughly 9.2% of it. Alpine School District's line alone is more than six times the city's.
Still provisional. The 0.000900 is certain; the vote, the motion and the figures the adopting resolution recites were not published when this was written, so everything priced at that rate here is this project's arithmetic on it.
Where this comes from
Every finding here is drawn from an open-meeting recording or a published document. Check it yourself.
“Eagle Mountain City will consider an increase to its property tax rate to generate an additional $6,958,141… Eagle Mountain City's current property tax rate is 0.000534… The estimated increase to Eagle Mountain City's property tax revenue is 218%… The affected budget is the Sheriff contract.”
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More checks on property tax
- Accurate, but incompleteEvery dollar of the increase goes to public safety
- MisleadingThe tax is really about the rodeo grounds
- Unsupported by the recordThe tax was rushed through in secret
- Not accurateThe money pays for a city police department
Checked August 19, 2026. Nothing goes on the fact-check list unless an open-meeting recording or a published document can settle it: the rules. Spot a mistake? civicrollcall@gmail.com