Should we be thankful.. or not??

emeraldkity4
Sun, 23 May 2010 11:21:13 +0000

Life is like this- but is the tax savings bigger than a reduction in ( possibly inflated assessment- at least in our area), home value?

It took a long time for the assessor to finally reassess our house- they don’t really individually assess, but plug in a formula. In our area, many people have upgraded their homes so it raises overall taxes and assessments. We don’t have state income taxes, so they have to get it out of property taxes- plus the way they drew our zip code was to include housing on the ridge, down to the water - but if you have a non view- non shore property- you still pay an increased tax rate.

Personally I would rather pay state income tax. ( and less sales tax- they want to increase county tax to 9.7% from 9.5%)