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  • Cavman

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    Lots 'o complaining in this thread, yet no solutions to the property tax dilemma, or better yet, since we all KNOW it'll be an issue in retirement for many of us, what are you doing to prepare for it?

    Man, I should have posted in the grammar thread. Talk about a run on sentence...

    FWIW, I was the youngest guy in line at the Treasurers office by a good 25+ years when I paid my property taxes last week... none of those old guys seemed to me pitching a fit...
    There's been a ton of solutions proposed. Like a true cap at 1% on original purchase price. Not 1% on ever changing growing assesed value. Cutting over bloated state and local govts to compensate for going back to 1% cap. Bob proposed alot of good solutions too.
     

    WebSnyper

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    Phylo, this is a good idea, but it seems no idea comes without unintended consequences.

    That is why this is so hard. Maybe a cap on increases during contiguous ownership? Then the unintended consequence is what if they want to leave their big house and get a smaller one but the taxes on the smaller are more than the taxes on the big house.
    In FL, where my brother lives, there is a system of being able to bank some of that and apply it to a purchase of a different property. I'm not at all versed in how it works, but there are places that do have some kind of adjustment for that.
     

    Ingomike

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    For what it's worth, I agree with you.
    I suppose your cell phone company pays the telecommunications taxes? Nope they pass it along. I suppose the tire shop pays the tire tax? Nope they pass it along. There are hundreds of specific taxes that are passed on and paid for by the end user though government actually collects that money from an intermediary. Only one party in a rental agreement brings cash to pay for anything, the tenant…
     

    Ingomike

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    Sales tax is applied to much more than just "sales".

    If it makes you happy though, you can call it whatever you like.
    So you don’t like a property tax for benefits to property owners and do not accept that by extension renters are paying that property tax, but are good to levy a sales tax on those renting a place to live?
     

    jamil

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    So you don’t like a property tax for benefits to property owners and do not accept that by extension renters are paying that property tax, but are good to levy a sales tax on those renting a place to live?
    Paying property taxes on a rental property is an expense. Expenses are only part of what drives price. It’s not 1:1.
     

    Ingomike

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    Paying property taxes on a rental property is an expense. Expenses are only part of what drives price. It’s not 1:1.
    Do those “expenses” not get passed on to the tenant? Are you implying that landlords pay taxes and do not collect that “expense” from the tenant?
     
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