Property Taxes ... How Much are yours

[devildog1]

Wow!
Property taxes here in N.Y.S. are crazy, just received my school taxes up 16.9% over last year! Local sales tax is 8%. Taxes an ONE pack of cigarettes is $4.59! My town taxes will be coming in a few months too. Don't know when but in the future some time I will not be able to afford my home, seniors apartment will be my last home, sad huh?
DevilDog

 

[Bill 55]

I just got the tax bill for and old house in town thet I haven't had anyone in for a couple of years. It is $249 per half. There is just a city lot and the house. Don't sound like I got it real bad. The 108 acre farm comes in at about $800 per year, I got an agricultural break because a neighbor farms all the tillable ground, so all in all I guess I can't complain too much.

 

[ultrarunner]

Property values have fallen, in some case dramatically... yet, my tax bills continue to increase even though I contest each year.

County just started $50 application fee to contest.

$12,800 and $9,000.... this year.

I have the home with the $12,800 tax bill rented for $1800 a month... 7 months rent just to cover this year's tax...

the $9,000 home is 1725 square feet on a steep acre and the home is circa 1957.

 

[Redneck in training]

80 acres, 2400sqft home, $3500

 

[Turbys_1700]

1.5 acres with a 1450 sq. ft. brick rancher built in 1954 valued @ $135,200...$797.68/yr.

102 acres valued @ $484,500 with farm use valuation set @ $56,900...$335.71/yr.

After reading some of the responses to this thread I'm gonna quit complaining as much...

 

[zonta223]

As a point of comparison in South Australia about 30 mins drive from Capital City on my 10 acres with a average brick home I pay $1700 a year......No school taxes that's what you pay income tax for. Very little in state taxes as it is a private residence. As municipal water does not cross the front on my property no water or sewage charge (If it did cross the front of my property I would be charged if I used it or not).
So from what I have been reading in this forum I guess we are pretty lucky.....and with unemployment down around 4 % and mining boom creating more jobs than there are workers to fill them looks like the place to live at the moment...:thumbsup::laughing:

regards

 

[JD5210]

The county I in live the property taxes are .50/100. With property tax, sales tax, utility taxes and 911 taxes the bill comes to about $3,000. My concern is what is being accomplished with the money. Half goes to schools the cost per child is $9,500/year of which the county pays $4,000. 80% of the school budget is salaries. Much goes to administration; last year to do assessments was $1million. Then there is paying for others bad behavior, sheriff $5million, $1million jail, courts, $2million group home, social services (the past and current director has said 60% of these people are mentally and physically able to work). While not all county money social services budget is $62million, this does not include Medicare. Fire and Rescue is mostly volunteer.

 

[bullbreaker]

We pay $1800 a year.4 br/2bath 2000 sq. ft (garage not included) 5 1/2 acres.
Have lived here since 1999.Built house original owners
We are just NE of Naples Fl.
Sold 1 and 1/2 years ago 30.5 acres in s central Missouri owned it 12 years and paid $20 and 64 cents a year in taxes(bare land).

Boone

 

[ultrarunner]

I find all this very interesting, taxes, taxes, all over the world, increasing all the time ...
I own a small sea-side property in western France worth 271.750 $. I don't know how it is with you, but here in France I pay three kinds of taxes :
property tax (for the owner) 920 $
tax for living there 950 $
capital tax (ISF) : 1.500 $
That is a total of 3.370 US $ for 2010, which doesn't seem so bad now I've read your figures !

Those I know living in Austria never complain about property tax and can't understand how I can pay the taxes I do...

Apparantly, the government there makes most of the money on import duties and consumption/value added taxes...

The thinking is it is counter productive to tax someone from their home and many homes have been in the same family for many generations...

 

[300UGUY]

Those I know living in Austria never complain about property tax and can't understand how I can pay the taxes I do...

Apparantly, the government there makes most of the money on import duties and consumption/value added taxes...

The thinking is it is counter productive to tax someone from their home and many homes have been in the same family for many generations...

And they get better roads, better security, and health care. If we added it all up, we are probably way behind Europe on a lot of issues.