Property Tax

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: cyclistca
What? People bitch and complain about taxes in Canada but my property taxes on a 275000 town house are only 1200 a year or there abouts.

Go Canada!

 

[T2T III]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Heisenberg

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
Yes, it really sucks. Kansas has property tax on cars too which really blows.

damn, do they at least account for rampant depreciation?

Yeah, they do. There's been a move to get rid of it for a while, but I'm not sure how far it's gotten. AKAIK, the tax is still there.

We've been "getting rid of ours" here in VA for a while now. :roll:

Good luck.

Yeah, but I think the personal property tax reform has been "frozen" for a bit of time. We need to have that last bit of tax whittled away so we don't have to pay it any more - and we can get rid of those stickers on our windshield, too.

 

[T2T III]

Originally posted by: cyclistca
What? People bitch and complain about taxes in Canada but my property taxes on a 275000 town house are only 1200 a year or there abouts.

Yea, but Canada has that horrible GST and PST tax. What are the two combined, about 25%?

 

[alm4rr]

education is the bulk of your local taxes

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
Our tax code only rewards people for debt and poor money management skills.

So true.

 

[T2T III]

Originally posted by: alm4rr
education is the bulk of your local taxes

But, I'm educated. Why do I have to pay such taxes?

 

[spacejamz]

Originally posted by: alm4rr
education is the bulk of your local taxes

we just our tax bill in the mail yesterday...

of the $3800 due, $2600 is for school taxes...

 

[sciencewhiz]

Move to California

 

[robphelan]

texas is just as bad as anywhere else... most likely worse than most.... makes up for no state income tax, I guess.

our house is valued at 170k (4b/2bath on .5 acre)and we pay about 6k in property tax (spread over 2 counties)

 

Because most administrations are very top heavy.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: spacejamz

Originally posted by: alm4rr
education is the bulk of your local taxes

we just our tax bill in the mail yesterday...

of the $3800 due, $2600 is for school taxes...

Alright.

Now look up your county/states ranking in education across the US.

I bet you guys are pretty high.

 

[spacejamz]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: spacejamz

Originally posted by: alm4rr
education is the bulk of your local taxes

we just our tax bill in the mail yesterday...

of the $3800 due, $2600 is for school taxes...

Alright.

Now look up your county/states ranking in education across the US.

I bet you guys are pretty high.

in Dallas, there are several school districts that standout. Plano ISD, Coppell ISD, Lewisville ISD are some of them (ISD stands for Independent School District) ...

If we had kids, there would no way in he!! they would attend the Dallas school district. It is pretty much a joke hearing about it in the news. Since it is a very diverisified district (alot of hispanics and african americans), alot of the effort of the school district leaders is focused at ensuring that their ethnic group has more power than the others. They focus more on this power struggle then they do educating the kids. It is pretty sad.

I went to high school down in a suburb of Houston and it was pretty much the same way. The suburban schools (Alief ISD, Ft Bend ISD, etc were better than Houston ISD - but that was 17 years ago)...

 

[zerocool1]

a demonstration that bush's economic plan is not working.....

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: zerocool1
a demonstration that bush's economic plan is not working.....

:roll:

No, in most states these are taxes that have been rising steadily for years, well before Bush. Govenrment in most states just kept adding more nice-but-not-necessary services during the good times, then refuse to cut back when times get tougher.

Here in WA they pull sleazy tricks like closing popular parks and libraries to convince you they need every penny they're getting, plus that new levy that's "only another $30 a year." Of course they can't cut paper-pushing staff, or close a park that nobody rwally cares about.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
Yes, it really sucks. Kansas has property tax on cars too which really blows.

I think most states have it. It's just hidden in the yearly renewal fee.

 

[PKPunk]

Originally posted by: spacejamz

Originally posted by: alm4rr
education is the bulk of your local taxes

we just our tax bill in the mail yesterday...

of the $3800 due, $2600 is for school taxes...

I don't own a house but I hear alot of property taxes go to schools. I heard somewhere that your county determines the amount of property tax that is allocated for schools, then the county pay's it's education money to the state. Then the state turns around and gives the county it's education money back. It's kind of a messed up system if that is true because it removes accountablity from local counties on their education spending. Frankly I think I think it's sad that 2600 dollars of your taxes are going to schools considering how bad our public schools are in the US.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons

Originally posted by: zerocool1
a demonstration that bush's economic plan is not working.....

:roll:

No, in most states these are taxes that have been rising steadily for years, well before Bush. Govenrment in most states just kept adding more nice-but-not-necessary services during the good times, then refuse to cut back when times get tougher.

Here in WA they pull sleazy tricks like closing popular parks and libraries to convince you they need every penny they're getting, plus that new levy that's "only another $30 a year." Of course they can't cut paper-pushing staff, or close a park that nobody rwally cares about.

Yeah, they'll do that.

Really, all avenues of our government are models of inefficiency. Some are in fact underfunded, but most could get by with less if they could just fire lazy workers, eliminate unnecessary departments and generally just apply standard corporate business practices to the whole thing.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Originally posted by: jadinolf

Originally posted by: cyclistca
What? People bitch and complain about taxes in Canada but my property taxes on a 275000 town house are only 1200 a year or there abouts.

Go Canada!

that's cheap, I have a $42,000 house and my taxes are just under a grand.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: dxkj
My wife and I were looking at a few houses in the area, and when we were having expected payments computed we were surprised by the amount of property tax.

215k house, 1100 mortgage payment, 550 dollars in propert tax each month.

This is 3% of the homes value each year. No other tax I've run into compares to this. At least you only have to pay sales tax once, and tax from your paycheck once. This is a penalty for home ownership it appears.

That's way to high. Tax is 50% of payments. I'd never move there.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
Yes, it really sucks. Kansas has property tax on cars too which really blows.

damn, do they at least account for rampant depreciation?

Same here in Charlottesville VA. It's around $50/year for my car.

 

[Mill]

Heh, my property taxes are low as hell. I'm paying about 900 FOR THE YEAR.

 

[HappyPuppy]

You can never own your home or any real property. Even when the mortgage is paid off you are just renting it from the government. Wrong in my opinion, but that's the reality.

 

[Scarpozzi]

I pay about $1000 per year for a $100,000 in Chattanooga, TN. The gubment owns your ass and assets. It sucks, but we have no choice unless we want to move to Mexico where you can buy a house for 4 G's and live like a king and drink tequila all day long as long as you don't get kidnapped.

 

[Doggiedog]

Depends on how fiscally responsible your town is.

A town a few towns over from me has double the tax as mine, has a terrible school system and has some bad crime. You really wonder how they are spending their money.

As for me, I just got screwed because I bought a house last year and got reassessed 6 months later. My taxes went up 25%. At least the school system is good here though.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser

Originally posted by: dxkj
My wife and I were looking at a few houses in the area, and when we were having expected payments computed we were surprised by the amount of property tax.

215k house, 1100 mortgage payment, 550 dollars in propert tax each month.

This is 3% of the homes value each year. No other tax I've run into compares to this. At least you only have to pay sales tax once, and tax from your paycheck once. This is a penalty for home ownership it appears.

That's way to high. Tax is 50% of payments. I'd never move there.

thats a silly argument.

say someone puts down most of the money for a house. the payment is say $200 a month. then the tax bill is $500 a month. would you not move there either?