Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Whoopee! the value of our property went up...

They don't need you to pay those taxes. They get it up front as sales tax. They're getting it, just in a different way. To think your or my local and state government, don't want all you have is inconsistent with their actions.🤔

In Michigan we have the Headlee amendment to the state constitution.

"In 1978, voters approved an amendment to the Michigan constitution known as the Headlee Amendment. Headlee protected property owners from increases in taxes by rolling back the tax rates of millages so that growth would not exceed the rate of inflation from the existing tax base."

This was in exchange for raising the state sales tax from 4 to 6%.

At the time people tended to move every 7 years where the taxes would pop up to an uncapped assessment. I've been here since 81 and I'll be staying until they wheel me out horizontal or put me in a rest home.

Neighbor would love to have me sell him a 12 x 50' strip of land as 7' of his garage is on my property. No way that is happening, not letting county have a chance of popping up 42 years of capped taxes.

That happened to us. When we built a new house in 2016, we built on a slab due to being on a lake and doing a craw space was going to be way too expensive because of flood plain requirements.
When they did the assessment, they showed us having a craw space. When I contested, they insisted on coming out. They then found out we had a walk-in attic, so this added item was about a wash. Keep the bastards out of your house if you can.

Death and taxes is two certainties in life your fugkd either way

6% sales tax on every purchase plus Idaho income tax rate ALMOST equals Oregon's income tax rate.

Thank God this is the last year I will ever file an Oregon NR tax form.

My wife turned 65 this year so ours is frozen unless the millage rate increases.

I've said it before and say it again. It's your greedy friends and neighbors that set the asking price. They don't give a phuhck about you when they sell or are you just pissed they aske you before they sold out?

My little hideyhole in Iowa went from 65k to 126 k in two years. Figured it cost me 100 dollars more a month in taxes and insurance

What did you get, you didn't already have, before taxes were raised?

25 years ago the value of property in Silicon Valley went up like a pyramid scheme.
Now with Amazon and Microsoft, it has happened to Seattle.
Just get on zillow and zoom in on the price of a 2 bedroom fixer upper...whoops, they were all torn down to make mansions.

Heyman. A 12 by 20 storage shed and a woodburner. Mostly because rural hasn't been adjusted for 20 years

About the only thing Cali has ever got right is the way they do property tax assessments. They assess based on the purchase price of the house. If you paid $20k for it 40 years ago, that’s what you’re assessed. Our home and taxes have skyrocketed over the last 7 years. The dick assessor is fond of telling people the tax rate hasn’t changed in 15 years. Well of course not dumbass, the assessments have more than taken care of that. Smug little guy has a hard on for anyone with a nicer place than his. A bunch of us had a big blowup about it at one of the monthly commissioners meetings a few years ago that kind of reined them in. Gotta let them know or they’ll just keep on spending every little penny they bring in.

As a former city council member, you have a lot of power over things like this. These people live where you do so they can’t pull garbage like this and hide in DC or your state capitol. Get active and let these turds know they need to be on a budget just like everyone else.

The county I live in has approved the construction of 233 wind turbins. Do you think this will increase or reduce my tax assessment? 30 of them are all within 1 and a half mile of my house with 8 of those inside a half mile.

California sucks hugely.

But, Prop 13 doesn't.

Limited to a 2% increase in assessed value from your base year, limited to 1% tax on that value.

As long as there are no major improvements, we get assessed on what the value was the year we bought it, plus any 2% increases they've added. According to the RE websites, our value has increased nearly 50% in the 5.5 years we've been here.