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What does mill mean?
A mill is a property-tax rate unit equal to one dollar of tax per one thousand dollars of taxable value.
Exam cue: Convert mills to a decimal or dollars per thousand before multiplying by taxable assessed value.
What does it look like in a question?
Example
A 20-mill rate produces $2,000 of tax on $100,000 of taxable value.
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What should you not confuse it with?
A mill is not one percent. Ten mills equal one percent.
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