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PartialProperty taxes

Slash property taxes paid by Nebraskans by an average of 50 percent through the property tax reduction plan presented for the 2024 special session.

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PartialFact-checker reviewConfidence: 86%

PARTIAL is upheld and well-supported. Pillen's stated goal for the special session he called was to slash property taxes paid by Nebraskans by an average of 50 percent (the largest cut in state history); his core plan (K-12 school-funding shift plus sales-tax broadening) stalled amid bipartisan opposition, and the Legislature instead passed the trimmed LB34, which delivered roughly 3 percent statewide relief (largely by front-loading an existing school-tax credit) plus caps on city/county collection growth. Real relief was enacted but fell far short of 50 percent, and Pillen himself called it a "step forward" and said he was "not satisfied" — the textbook "doing part of it" pattern. Not FULL/CHAMPIONED (far below the goal; his signature plan was rejected, not led to passage) and not ATTEMPTED (a relief bill did pass and reduce taxes). Source verification: the Tax Foundation quote is verbatim-confirmed on the page ("very little seems to have changed... property tax bills kept rising"); the Governor's press release contains both phrases of its cited quote verbatim ("LB 34 is an important step forward" and "This is not a one-and-done issue"), though as two separate sentences the rating joined with a period rather than one contiguous quotation; the Omaha World-Herald page now 302-redirects to a TollBit paywall so its body is not directly fetchable, but its URL slug encodes the cited headline verbatim and an identical syndicated Lee Enterprises copy (Sioux City Journal, Star Herald) confirms the "wanted 50%, got a 3% cut" quote is genuine, not fabricated.

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