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     Fort Myers Beach residents will have  to dig deeper to pay a new tax the town is about to adopt in the face of its growing bureacracy and declining revenues.  The new tax would be in addition to rate hikes in your power bills and town water bills.

     The town is about to lower the property tax rate but add a new tax - a ten percent tax on your electric bills. The council  already has tentatively approved the new tax in one of two public hearings and it's set to vote for final approval on Sept. 26 unless residents show up in  big numbers to oppose it.  The tax on Florida Power and Light bills will paid by the customer - you - and will go the town to support its growing bureacracy. The new tax would take effect in April after a probable FPL rate hike and yet another rate hike in the the town's water rates.

   Beach taxpayers will have the opportunity to oppose that tax in the final  public hearing at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 26 at Town Hall council chambers.