Northern Nye County taxpayers will enjoy slightly lower property tax rates for the 2007-08 fiscal year, thanks to the elimination of a Nye County hospital district tax of almost 30 cents for each $100 of valuation.

The Nye County treasurers office is sending out tax notices this week to 56,000 property owners, second in number only to Clark County. The first quarterly installment is due Aug. 20.

Otherwise, tax rates stay pretty much the same for many of the smaller communities with little taxable property value.

The combined Nye County tax rate stays the same at $1.34 per $100 of assessed valuation. The general fund accounts for 98.8 cents of that rate.

The other taxing entities encompassing the Nye County combined tax rate and their tax rates per $100 of valuation include: the road tax (a half-cent), agricultural extension (one and a half cents), medical and general indigent (8.2 cents), dedicated county medical (two cents), state medical indigent (one and a half cents), museum, (.79 cent), juvenile probation (10 cents), health clinics (3.9 cents), capital projects (1.7 cents), special capital projects (five cents) and 911 emergency tax (half-cent).

The Nye County School District tax rate is almost the same as the county, $1.33 per $100, the State of Nevada collects another 17 cents. Both remain the same.

The combined tax rate for Pahrump will drop a miniscule four-hundredths of a cent for each $100 of valuation, from $3.1230 to $3.1226. The town tax rate was increased from 22.53 cents per $100 in the 2006-07 tax year to 22.74 cents this year; the Pahrump library tax rate went down from 3.82 cents to 3.5 cents; the swimming pool rate went up from 0.77 cents to 0.86 cents.

In 2006-07 the Nevada Department of Taxation estimated the tax burden on the owner of property in Pahrump valued at $100,000 was $1.093.55.

Pahrump and Amargosa Valley residents are the only ones who didn't pay the hospital district to Nye Regional Medical Center, which has been eliminated starting this year.

Elsewhere in Nye County, Beatty property owners will see their combined tax rate drop a little below the maximum $3.64 allowed by state law per $100 of valuation. Beatty property owners will pay $3.33 per $100 of valuation, down from $3.63 per $100 thanks to the elimination of the hospital tax.

Likewise the combined tax rate in Gabbs, Manhattan and Round Mountain drops from $3.63 to $3.33 with the expiration of the county hospital tax for Nye Regional Medical Center.

Tonopah property owners will see a reduction in their tax rate from $3.65 per $100 to $3.35 per $100.

Amargosa Valley continues to have the highest town tax rate, with an absence of many commercial properties. It's town tax rate is almost 49.5 cents per $100 of valuation. Gabbs' town tax rate is slightly below that, 48.46 cents per $100.

Nye County residents who don't want to wait for their tax bill can go on-line at the county's web site, www.nyecounty.net, click on the treasurer's link on the right side, enter their parcel number without the dashes and check out their bill.

Nye County Treasurer Gary Budahl told county commissioners Tuesday, "in response to the hundreds of phone calls we've been getting over the past few days, the tax bills will be going out within the next seven days."

"We know you'd like to give us your money but there's no hurry, you have until Aug. 20th."