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2012 Property Taxes

D1gger

D1gger

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I just received my property tax notice for the condo we have in Vancouver and was pleasantly surprised to see that my tax bill decreased this year. It is down about 1.4% from last year.

Where do you live and have your taxes gone up or down this year?
 
Longview WA. Tax rate is basically stagnant (up just a fraction of a percent), but overall dollars are down because we're still having our assessments dropped each year to bring us reasonable. Probably be the last year for it, unless the economy continues tanking and things get worse.
 
My house in IL continues to get taxed more and more even though values have dropped about 20% in the area. The county assessor is starting to get in a little hot water over the issue but its IL so nothing will happen, corruption as usual.
 
Mine went down last year after I (using a third party) disputed my assessed value and went down this year by a couple bucks just from the assessor's property valuation. Rates have stayed the same.
 
xBiffx said:
My house in IL continues to get taxed more and more even though values have dropped about 20% in the area. The county assessor is starting to get in a little hot water over the issue but its IL so nothing will happen, corruption as usual.
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Fellow IL resident checking in and loathing my bill. My value dropped by $30,000 and my taxes went up $1000. Paying almost $10,000 a year on a $395,000 house in the middle of the f'n country. Yay.

Oh and that's not even counting the 50% state income tax increase we had the pleasure of receiving recently.

Yay IL! If my family wasn't entirely based here I'd be out of this tax riddled shithole in a heartbeat.
 
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My assessed value was basically flat when compared to last year and the property taxes decreased a bit.
 
vi edit said:
Fellow IL resident checking in and loathing my bill. My value dropped by $30,000 and my taxes went up $1000. Paying almost $10,000 a year on a $395,000 house in the middle of the f'n country. Yay.

Oh and that's not even counting the 50% state income tax we had the pleasure of receiving recently.

Yay IL! If my family wasn't entirely based here I'd be out of this tax riddled shithole in a heartbeat.
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I assume you mean "increase in"? Still, wow!

My official tax bill went down (reassessed), but it's still a ridiculous percentage. And that doesn't look likely to change...
 
jagec said:
I assume you mean "increase in"? Still, wow!

My official tax bill went down (reassessed), but it's still a ridiculous percentage. And that doesn't look likely to change...
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Whoops. Yes. 3% to 4.5%.
 
IL is horrible. Just paid one bill for an inhabitable piece of land where Lake County is still assessing the "home" at a crazy high number. No well, no septic, so you can't live there, yet Lake County is taxing me as if it is. This is the 4th year in a row I have appealed and lost.
The bastards.
 
Ours comes out July 1, a date I've come to fear and loathe over the 23 years I've owned this house. They've been more quiet than normal regarding the mil rates down at Town Hall. Ugh...
 
vi edit said:
Fellow IL resident checking in and loathing my bill. My value dropped by $30,000 and my taxes went up $1000. Paying almost $10,000 a year on a $395,000 house in the middle of the f'n country. Yay.

Oh and that's not even counting the 50% state income tax increase we had the pleasure of receiving recently.

Yay IL! If my family wasn't entirely based here I'd be out of this tax riddled shithole in a heartbeat.
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I hear you on the property taxes, but it's going to be a long while before I ever complain about Illinois state income tax after having lived in California, where my decidedly un-ATOT, less than six digit income was taxed at 9%, one bracket down from the highest category.
 
D1gger said:
I just received my property tax notice for the condo we have in Vancouver and was pleasantly surprised to see that my tax bill decreased this year. It is down about 1.4% from last year.

Where do you live and have your taxes gone up or down this year?
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Did the rate go down 1.4% or did the assessed value go down by 1.4%? They are 2 very different things.
 
xBiffx said:
My house in IL continues to get taxed more and more even though values have dropped about 20% in the area. The county assessor is starting to get in a little hot water over the issue but its IL so nothing will happen, corruption as usual.
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:'🙂'🙂'🙂biggrin:

LMAO your're a FIB???
 
Sheep said:
I hear you on the property taxes, but it's going to be a long while before I ever complain about Illinois state income tax after having lived in California, where my decidedly un-ATOT, less than six digit income was taxed at 9%, one bracket down from the highest category.
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At least CA had decent weather 😉

And with IL it's more than just the income taxes. It's every fricken thing else too. We are like NYC lite. In some areas the sales tax is over 11% for certain things. I pay 10% sales tax on every 1$ cheeseburger I buy at McDonalds.

Our gas is the 7th most taxed in the country. And I'm just waiting for them to go to a personal tax/adjusted value tax on motor vehicle registration where the basic plate cost is $100 a year and could be upwards of $500+ a year for high end luxury vehicles.
 
Word of advice, vi: Never.... move to NJ.

assessed value down... 1500 sq ft Ranch on 1/4 acre lot...

Property tax hit a new high of $11K/yr. Not counting state income taxes and sales taxes.
 
I think I owed something like $260 between parish and town taxes. I paid late, so I got hit with a bit of interest as well. For some reason property taxes always slip my mind.
 
My property taxes should go down this year while all of my neighbors' taxes will go up. Property values have tanked but a somewhat recently enacted bill capped our tax increase (similar to CA's Prop 13) but allowed the Assessor to stash away untaxed value for later use. My neighbors all enjoyed artificially low tax rates in the boom but are paying the piper now as rates still go up in a depressed market. I, on the other hand, bought my house on the downswing and never claimed the cap so my taxes have (basically) been going down since I bought.
 
I live in Orlando Fl and mine has been going down for 5 yrs now.
The highest was in 2007 when it was $2500.
The assessment for 2012 is $1045.
I'm lovin' it.
 
I live in Connecticut. The taxes here are some of the worst in the nation... and I'm not sure why.

I'm paying $4,500 a year in tax for a condo that might be worth $100K on a good day... I'm getting screwed.
 
Scotteq said:
Word of advice, vi: Never.... move to NJ.

assessed value down... 1500 sq ft Ranch on 1/4 acre lot...

Property tax hit a new high of $11K/yr. Not counting state income taxes and sales taxes.
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Sweet Jesus. I knew NJ had some of the highest property taxes in the country, but I didn't know it was THAT bad...
 
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