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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThey wouldn't offer me a "regular customer" discount
when I went downtown today to pay my property taxes
You just can't reason with some people
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Do not worry. If the GOP tax plan is passed, fewer people will own property and fewer will pay the taxes.
GoneOffShore
(17,340 posts)Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)I would take my business elsewhere.
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)rurallib
(62,423 posts)they've been running our gummint for a year.
Betchya Vlad Putin gives discounts!
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,862 posts)to new customers. You might want to see if there's another property tax company there, or (and this is fiendishly clever if I do say so myself) sell your property, then buy it back after a month (I'm sure you'll have no trouble finding someone to aid and abet you here) and then go downtown as a brand new customer and ask for the discount.
Let me know if either of these works.
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,862 posts)Round up other seniors, the crabbier the better. Make sure a few of them use walkers or canes. Just occupy the offices of the tax company for a few hours, complaining and making comments on everybody and everything you see there, and generally doing all of the things we seniors do so well. I bet it won't take too long for them to understand the reasonableness of your position.
Historic NY
(37,451 posts)my uncle was in the oil business (heating) he would give cash payers the discount.