Part 1 · The simple version

Compare the agreements.

Six commercial tax agreements, six different sets of terms. Pick one and see what it charges, year by year, and where that money is sent. Every schedule here is quoted from the contract.

What this tool does and does not do

It applies the rate schedule written into each agreement to a rent roll you choose. It shows what an agreement charges, not what the Township collected. Actual billing and payment records have been requested and will be published as Part 2.

Anything you type in is your assumption, not a fact from a document, and the page marks results that depend on it.

How one of these works, in four sentences

A developer builds something. Instead of a property tax bill on the building, the Township takes an Annual Service Charge set as a percentage of the building’s rent roll. State law then splits that charge 95% to the Township and 5% to Mercer County, with no statutory share for the school district.4 The land underneath stays on the normal tax rolls — though the developer gets a credit for that land tax against the service charge.3

The agreements call this Annual Gross Revenue. $7,935,479 is year one of the Matrix 7A Fiscal Plan — the one figure here that comes from a document.
1.6% is the rate the Township’s own 2012 Fiscal Plan assumed. Change it and everything downstream changes with it.
Only fill this in if you have a real assessment. The step-up stages are a percentage of the taxes otherwise due, so without a value those stages cannot be calculated and are shown as “not calculable.”
Charge in year one
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Charged across the whole term
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Of which the school district receives
$0
by statute. The schools receive their ordinary share of the land tax, which is separate — and which is credited back against this charge.
Year by year
One bar per year of the agreement. Watch for where the schedule changes — that is the step-up, and on most of these it arrives very late. Hover for the figure.
 
Every year as a table
YearRent rollCharge set by ChargeTownship 95%County 5% Schools get, on the BUILDING — exempt
(on the LAND it gets 55.2%)

This table covers the service charge on the building only. The land underneath is never exempt — it is taxed normally and the schools receive their ordinary 55.2% share of it.4 Township and County figures are before the land tax credit the agreements provide for; the You Run The NUMBERS page applies it.

Three things worth trying What to change, and what it shows you

Switch to “Matrix 7A (2018)”

Same developer, same corner of town, six years later: 15% of the rent instead of 10%, over eleven years instead of twenty. The projects are not identical and 2018 was a different market — that objection is answered in full on the main page. But it does settle whether eleven-year terms exist in Robbinsville. They do.

Set the rent growth to zero, then to five percent

The charge moves with it. A property tax bill would not — it moves with assessed value. That is the single most important structural difference between these agreements and an ordinary tax bill, and you can watch it happen.

Find the year the schedule changes

Every agreement eventually steps up toward a full tax bill. On the Matrix warehouse that does not reach 40% until year eighteen. At Hamilton, Self Storage and Meridia, not until year sixteen.

The argument
What the documents say
The full case with every source, what is still unverified, and what Part 2 is waiting on.
 Go deeper
You Run The NUMBERS
Cap the term, start the floor in year one, add a school contribution — and see what the Township and the schools would have collected.

Found a mistake?

This is built from documents and documents can be misread. Show me an error and I will fix it in public and credit you.

Tell us See the sources

Every figure on this page comes from a document you can open, or from arithmetic on one. The tax rates are from the New Jersey Division of Taxation. The agreement terms and the Annual Service Charge schedule are from the Township of Robbinsville's own records, obtained under the Open Public Records Act on April 12, 2026, and available from this campaign on request.

If you find an error on this page, tell us and we will correct it in public.