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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announced more homeowners and renters would receive property tax relief under his new proposal.

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Credit: Matt Donders on Unsplash File photo In 2006, Italy won the World Cup, Beyoncé had two Billboard chart toppers and New Jersey property-tax bills averaged $6,446. While a lot has changed over the last decade-and-a-half — including the size of those property-tax bills — the year 2006 remains frozen in time for one of the state’s most popular property-tax relief programs. That’s because governors and lawmakers from both parties have for well over a decade been using outdated bills from 2006 to calculate property-tax relief benefits provided to seniors, people with disabilities an...