dmccarty
Super Star Member
NC has a sales tax on vehicles, I think it is the usual sales tax but we have not bought a car in years, so I don't know the tax amount anymore. Every year we then get taxed on the value of the vehicle as part of its registration which is another tax. I THINK the vehicle is taxed even if it is only used on your land, ie, the vehicle is not registered and legal to use on roads.
Of course we pay our rent, ie, property tax on the house and land to the county every year. Over the last few years we have had some decent elected officials who have held down taxes and county expenses but they go voted out office and a new gang of clowns is now in power. The last gang of clowns raised taxes, hired a Human RELATIONS and Obesity directors who did nothing and were eventually fired. The new clowns promised open government, which the people voted out of office were already doing. The new clowns all but stopped meetings with citizens in the rural part of the county and started a process to zone the county even though nobody in the rural area wants zoning. They stopped meetings with rural people over the issues because they did not like what The People were saying. I expect our taxes to rise soon.
Right after we bought our land, the property was reappraised and the new taxes were so high I was afraid we would have to sell land because we could not afford the taxes. :shocked: Thankfully, I was able to get the land into a timber valuation otherwise we would have had to sell the land. If that had happened more houses would have been built. Now in some areas that is what people want but my area is very anti development but we would have had no choice but to sell because of high taxes.
We also have state income taxes and lets not forget the high fuel taxes we pay.
Later,
Dan
Of course we pay our rent, ie, property tax on the house and land to the county every year. Over the last few years we have had some decent elected officials who have held down taxes and county expenses but they go voted out office and a new gang of clowns is now in power. The last gang of clowns raised taxes, hired a Human RELATIONS and Obesity directors who did nothing and were eventually fired. The new clowns promised open government, which the people voted out of office were already doing. The new clowns all but stopped meetings with citizens in the rural part of the county and started a process to zone the county even though nobody in the rural area wants zoning. They stopped meetings with rural people over the issues because they did not like what The People were saying. I expect our taxes to rise soon.
Right after we bought our land, the property was reappraised and the new taxes were so high I was afraid we would have to sell land because we could not afford the taxes. :shocked: Thankfully, I was able to get the land into a timber valuation otherwise we would have had to sell the land. If that had happened more houses would have been built. Now in some areas that is what people want but my area is very anti development but we would have had no choice but to sell because of high taxes.
We also have state income taxes and lets not forget the high fuel taxes we pay.
Later,
Dan
