Whats you tax rate at your residence?

   / Whats you tax rate at your residence? #21  
Holy crap! I must be doing something wrong. My property taxes are about $6500/year. We own two adjacent lots for a total of just shy of 7 acres. The main property is appraised at $217K and the adjacent lot is appraised at $90K. I don't claim ag exemption, but every year when I have to choke down the tax bill, I consider it. I just don't need the added hassle of filing and maintaining the exempt tax status. because I was recently annexed by the city, I'd have to prove that I meet the Ag status each year.

If your land does not already have an agriculture exemption you will not be able to get one next year, it will take 5 years to EARN it.

That is why if you buy land with an agg exemption in Texas you try to keep it. You can switch ONLY your agg exemption for a wildlife exemption. When they created the wildlife exemption, about 25 years ago, that was one of the stipulations that it had to already be under agg exemption so there would not be a loss of tax monies to the counties.
 
   / Whats you tax rate at your residence? #22  
Good Afternoon sw99,
My assessed value is 207,000

town general tax .2128 = 440.47
highway tax .2064 =427.25
local agreement .0016= 3.31

non residential education 1.461= 3030.69 OUCH

Total $3900.00

This includes the acreage, the house is about 1500 sqft, the barn 28' by 44'

Don't ask what I pay in Ct !
 
   / Whats you tax rate at your residence? #23  
If your land does not already have an agriculture exemption you will not be able to get one next year, it will take 5 years to EARN it.

That is why if you buy land with an agg exemption in Texas you try to keep it. You can switch ONLY your agg exemption for a wildlife exemption. When they created the wildlife exemption, about 25 years ago, that was one of the stipulations that it had to already be under agg exemption so there would not be a loss of tax monies to the counties.

Don,
You're correct. It takes 5 years to earn it, then because I'm now in city limits, I have to prove I continue to be in Agricultural use EACH year. I believe if you're outside city limits, you have to show agricultural use 2 out of 5 years or something similar.
 
   / Whats you tax rate at your residence? #24  
That is a 20% increase over last year.....our elected county commission went nuts this past year, and no doubt most of the "tax and spent" crowd will be replaced in the next election.

HA, good luck with that. I keep thinking that in my county and they just keep re electing the same ol folks. The last two elections my county commissioner ran UNOPPOSED.

Problem in our county is not the actual home owners tax. They keep tacking on non ad valorem fees, raising gas tax, permit fees, and on top of that the voters vote in any extra county local option sales tax they claim to need. We don't have any idea how much our actual taxes are because they have added all the above. We've got storm water fees, fire services fees, garbage fees (these do not include pickup, we still pay extra for that). Next thing you know we will have to pay a protection fee from this MOB.

Government is just another word for organized crime.
 
   / Whats you tax rate at your residence? #26  
HA, good luck with that. I keep thinking that in my county and they just keep re electing the same ol folks. The last two elections my county commissioner ran UNOPPOSED.


Hey.....whose fault is that ?

I intend to give the current 'good ole boy' a run for his money in 2018.
 
   / Whats you tax rate at your residence? #28  
In New Jersey, 2 acre plot, 3,200 sq ft home, well and septic, $13,000 a year, plus $150 a quarter for trash pick up, 7% sales tax.

When I mentioned 11k it is for an original 1700 square feet home circa 1957 on 1 acre.... plus trash pickup and 10% sales tax and $100 minimum car tags for a clunker and extra taxes on phones, cable, etc...

I always thought New Jersey was higher?
 
   / Whats you tax rate at your residence? #30  
If your land does not already have an agriculture exemption you will not be able to get one next year, it will take 5 years to EARN it.

That is why if you buy land with an agg exemption in Texas you try to keep it. You can switch ONLY your agg exemption for a wildlife exemption. When they created the wildlife exemption, about 25 years ago, that was one of the stipulations that it had to already be under agg exemption so there would not be a loss of tax monies to the counties.

Ehhh....another way to go at it is get a timber exemption for a year then switch it over to wildlife. Once it has an exemption it's easier to bounce it around. I wouldn't do ag, wildlife is easy with timber being the easiest. We took out nearly all our pines so that required a change

Brett
 

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