73ss454 said:
Lazy, well I'll tell you how I'll feel. Everyone should pay the same taxes for the same services. Makes no sense that someone should pay more because they moved in later for the same services. Also the people that lived here are also locked into not being able to move for the same reason. Just plain stupid IMHO.
People can't downsize or move up and are just stuck in an unreasonable system.
so can i just as easily argue that since i have been paying for 30 years to put the infrastructure in place so that you can enjoy your recent retirement here and pay the same taxes i'm paying, that i can charge you rent? or do you really think recent developments have payed their fair share of impact fees? i think this could be argued in both directions into infinity.
people would be better able to downsize if, as i already stated, they simply made soh portable.
RP said:
Interesting how several comment on Florida supposedly rolling back property taxes. I've lived in a number of states, Florida not one of them, but I never paid property tax to a state on a home. To a county and city? Yep, for sure. And in the states I have lived in 9and in states I am aware of the system workings) the state doesn't set homeowner property taxes. I'm interested in how this state reduction idea would/could be implemented
sorry but i'm really not all that financially astute in these matters and so have accessed my 2006 prop tax bill. looks like it all goes to the county and is divided from there. i'll list the breakdown here on a ~$425k house but i'm afraid it is only going to upset 73ss454 even more:
broward county operating $238.05
capital projects 10.48
debt service 18.62
school board gen fund 219.85
capital outlay 118.33
debt service 8.35
sfwmd (water district) 12.51
okeechobee basin 13.79 (everglades restoration?)
everglades c.p. 4.40 ibid
north hospital district 80.67
children svc council 17.94
my muncipality 276.41
debt service 9.85
fl inland navigation (icw, etc) 1.70
assessment fire service 111.53
total (w/paid early discount) $1,096.78
next sucker's tax bill who buys my house $10,000