10/23/07, 10:35 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Eastern Washington
Posts: 1,498
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Originally Posted by DocM
I'm curious, in those states with low property taxes, what is the schedule for income, sales, and vehicle taxes? We don't have a sales tax in Oregon, but high income and property taxes. Even at that, it varies wildly from county to county. A populated county like Multnomah (where Portland is located), my acreage and house would probably command around 5-6K a year. One county over, where I live, it's 1/5th that rate. I would think that state and county services still need to be paid, so even if you have a low property tax, you're getting hit somewhere else.
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Good point, we live in Arkansas, moved here from E. Washington 2 years ago. We thought great, lower cost of living, dh getting great pay increase (reason for move). Well yes property taxes are very low in this state however we have a state income tax, state, county and city sales tax (which is higher in some areas than the sales tax in WA State which only has sales tax and property tax) then we have to assess once a year and pay taxes on what vehicles we own (on top of the registration costs once a year). We actually figure that it has cost us more to live here than it did in E. WA.
Dee
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