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Where Your Lexington Tax Dollars Go

Fiscal year
FY2026 · Jul 1, 2025 — Jun 30, 2026
FY2026 Lexington Taxpayer ExposureAll Funds · 6 Entities
$0
▲ FCPS > LFUCGFCPS: —LFUCG: —Per capita: $0[budget-fy26-adopted.pdf · FCPS tentative budget]

Combined FY2026 budgets of every public entity a Lexington resident funds — city government, schools, transit, library, health department, regional planning. Six entities, six separate lines on your tax bill. Most Lexington residents only know about one.

10-yr trend · CAGR +4.5%
aggregate · all entities

The six entities funded by Lexington taxpayers

Sorted by FY26 budget · primary-source linked

Most Lexington residents don't know their property tax funds five entities

Tax type
Property tax
≈$28M collected by LFUCG; majority passes through
Source: CivicLex budget primer · LexTran FY26 · LFCHD FY24 audit
Tax type
Occupational tax
2.25% wage + 2.25% net profits
Source: LFUCG ordinance · FCPS FY24 audit
Tax type
Insurance premium / franchise / other
Insurance premium tax + franchise fees + permits
Source: LFUCG FY26 Budget · revenue narrative

What's anomalous right now — across every entity we cover

LFUCG anomalies + FCPS governance events · unified

FCPS — fiscal-controls collapse

The school district is the largest single check Lexington writes and also where the most active fiscal-controls activity is happening: a state Auditor special examination, a forensic audit by Weaver & Tidwell, a ~$16M disclosed shortfall, and a $90M single-year cash drop (FY23 → FY24) that coexisted with a clean unmodified audit opinion.
Active P0
0
OROM violations · 24mo
0
Cash drop FY24
−$90M
/schools dashboardLong-form report

LFUCG — anomaly flags

City-government anomalies surfaced by automated detectors: budget-to-actual variance, contract-concentration, pension volatility, OPEB sensitivity. Each flag is an observation, not an accusation — the methodology page explains how each detector works.
No live anomalies surfaced yet. The detectors run on each ingestion cycle.
/lfucg dashboardAll anomaly flags
0 published flags
FCPS FY26 working budget
$0
Largest single public budget in Fayette County
LFUCG FY26 adopted
$0
Per published budget headline (p. 14)
Combined city + schools
$0
Roughly $0 per Fayette County resident

Long-form investigations

All reports →
FCPS · Round 6
Fiscal Controls 2026
What the $90M cash drop, voided occupational-tax vote, and Memorial Day bond approval actually mean.
Read ↗
LFUCG · Round 5
Pensions & Entitlements
$244M net pension liability, 61%/57% funded ratios, and the looming debt-service curve.
Read ↗
FCPS · Round 6
Schools, Explained
Plain-English primer on how Lexington's schools are funded and governed.
Read ↗
About this view

Every figure on this page traces to a primary public document — adopted budgets, audited financials, board resolutions, or KY Legislature annual reports. Numbers marked "estimated" use the most recent publicly available figure when an FY26 audit isn't yet released. The four entities without live dashboards (LexTran, LFCHD, Library, BGADD) are on the roadmap for future rounds. State flow-through (KDE SEEK, Medicaid, KYTC road funds) is Round 8 — a tax-incidence calculator that maps "you make $X, you own a $Y house" to your personal share of each entity above.