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05/25/10, 11:09 PM
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Property Taxes!!! Went down this year!!!
I got several large envelopes last week, from the tax assessor. I DID NOT want to open them. Saw my aunt over the weekend, and she said hers went down, of all things. Rushed back home, and looked, and shazam! they did go down.
My agricultural and timber land went down 17%. I figured they would have went up, but was pleasantly surprised.
Anyone else got pleasantly surprised by their property tax statement this year?
I figured up my taxes on my largest tract of land, and the school taxes are only 80c/acre.
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05/25/10, 11:46 PM
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Mine went down $7 last year. I hope the trend continues this year since a few houses in the area got wiped out by tornadoes and the property where they were has been returned to farmland.
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05/26/10, 12:09 AM
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I was grateful for small mercies, ours didn't go up at least. Considering last year our taxes jumped up by a third, I'm just glad they stayed the same.
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05/26/10, 07:44 AM
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Our home (Plano) went down! Still valued more than we could prolly get for it tho, a travesty IMHO.
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05/26/10, 07:46 AM
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I haven't got my assessment yet, but it should go down in appaised value. Now, the millage may go up to keep the taxes level (or even higher), but we'll see.
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05/26/10, 07:57 AM
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our taxes have gone down now two years in a row and a note with ours said to expect them to fall again for next year.
we live in Michigan..so that explains it all
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05/26/10, 08:07 AM
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yep mine went down a little, mich. here also
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05/26/10, 08:35 AM
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For the last two years our taxes have gone down by 10% each year.
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05/26/10, 09:33 AM
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Location: Northern Michigan
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My assessor called my husband and told him to come to the tax tribunal with some paperwork so she could lower our assessed value. I can't believe she called us to help us get our taxes lowered. We've fought with her for the last four years we've been here over her ridiculous over-valuation of our land. So the taxes went down a bit. Still, I believe she has us over-valued. Hopefully she will take us down some more next year.
So long as our county and township keeps voting down additional levies...........
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05/26/10, 10:33 AM
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Listen to you bunch of heathens! I can't believe you would actually want your taxes to go down. Whats wrong with all of you? You should hang your heads in shame! Lowering taxes....I've heard it all now! What is this country coming too?.. I personally am going to stay in North Carolina and pay more than my fair share and then some.... Lowering taxes...... makes me sick just thinking about it....How un-American can you get? Next thing is going to be no state income tax...What? What? Texas has no income tax??!!! That is just evil to the core!!!
Congratulations to all of you whos taxes went down!!!!!!!!
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05/26/10, 11:22 AM
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Be sure the flip side stays down - the tax rate. The actual taxes are assessment times tax rate. They can be sneaky about hiding an increase one way or another. Frankly, they should not be taxing land beyond a very minimal lot size for the house, say up to two acres. The rest of the land is a benefit to the community sucking up carbon, filtering dust, removing pollution from the air, being a beautiful landscape. It is the people in the houses that are using the resources of the town and should pay, not the land.
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05/26/10, 04:33 PM
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My property value went down, by 20K, but my taxes went up, marginally. They just increased the millage to overcome the reduction. The State of Ohio is just so @#@$% where taxes are concerned, they are not going to give up anything they can extort out of the homeowner....I swear, if they ever truly went DOWN I'd have a stroke or something! The school system is way overfunded and I'm always voting DOWN levies and tax initiatives, and yet in the last election, I got a couple of new bills to pay courtesy of other citizens - libraries in the county which I don't use and have to drive 15 miles for, and for Fire/EMS. Adds up to 100$ extra a year. Not a big increase, but really, this has GOT to stop!
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05/26/10, 04:59 PM
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Around here, rural land appraisals went up dramatically. Improvement appraisals (dwellings), only went up minimally, if at all. I've noticed that many suburban appraisals have actually gone done in the past couple of years, some quite significantly. 
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05/26/10, 07:14 PM
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surprisingly, my taxes went down this year at my residence. The reason was simply. They did a reassement last year. Generally, the property taxes around here are roughly 1% of assessed market value.
Supposedly, the high dollar lake homes are now being assessed at 100% valuation. I don't believe it. In the past, some of these expensive ($10,000,000) lake homes were assessed at 20% valuation.
Property I own in an adjoining county went up. Its a modest lake home. The property is listed with a realtor for $130,000, yet the tax assessment comes in at $192,000!!??!! Property taxes are $2400. I'll be glad to dump the place.
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05/26/10, 07:37 PM
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Taxes are going down because The Sheriff is preoccuppied with his sweetie Latrine 
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05/26/10, 09:54 PM
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Our taxes went down 20% this year because of casino revenue, so the county raised them 23%. Oh well, better luck next year I guess.
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05/27/10, 09:32 AM
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Down? What's that?
Ours go up about $100 a year now.
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05/27/10, 09:42 AM
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Glad to hear that! I wondered if they would adjust them down since property values have fallen so much almost everywhere in America. The assessor is supposed to be out in our area right now, ours will go down of course with no actual house but I hope everyone's does. They pulled a fast one a few years ago where they jacked everyone's rates quite a bit, ours doubled in one year. I went and complained because according to state law they could only raise them 10% per year. They dropped ours back down but they said if you didn't come in the first year and say something about it and paid them instead then you got stuck with it and there was no recourse.
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05/27/10, 11:49 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by texican
I got several large envelopes last week, from the tax assessor. I DID NOT want to open them. Saw my aunt over the weekend, and she said hers went down, of all things. Rushed back home, and looked, and shazam! they did go down.
My agricultural and timber land went down 17%. I figured they would have went up, but was pleasantly surprised.
Anyone else got pleasantly surprised by their property tax statement this year?
I figured up my taxes on my largest tract of land, and the school taxes are only 80c/acre.
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Wow! That's the kind of surprise we'd all enjoy.
Do you know what happened? Did you make some changes on your property or did your county enact some kind of tax changes?
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