Reply #18: You're right, but... [View All]

[Killarney]

in the case of my town, they used to update property assessments every five years or so (maybe longer). In the past three years, they have done it every year. Basically, because they need the money and they know that's the only way to get more than a 2.5% increase out of us.

You wanna know how much my property tax has gone up in the last 3 years?

48%.

I paid about $3000 in property taxes for my house in 2000 and I'll be paying about $6000 this year.

This year alone, it's going up 21% over last year. So much for the 2.5%. :(

But, you're right that it's the values, but they changed the rules on how often they do the valuations so that they can milk us for more and more each year. (my town anyway) All that bullshit wouldn't be necessary if Romney hadn't decreased our town's funding by 20% this year. So, he decreased funding to my town 20% this year (and the year before that was a huge cut, too). I'm personally paying 21% more this year. And he wants to give more income tax cuts. What an asshole. I can't wait for him to go back to Utah.