Property Tax BS!

[UserRemoved1]

No that's right they don't set rates on prop values they set rates to eliminate budget shortfalls.

I'm still waiting to hear from Bigfish.

Originally Posted by RIJIMMY

Thanks Johnny. Up a buck per thousand!
Salty - so the town raised my tax rate. My property value has nothing to do with it. They need more money, they raised the rate. To Fishbones point, property values dont "really" matter. If they need 20 million to run a town and 5 people live there, they have to divide it somehow and so property value is the divider. Its not what determines the money needed. It is misleading. Its not a tax on the worth of my property.

back to my Mansfield gripe - we add a mall raking in tons of $$$ and my taxes go up! Crazy.

[striperman36]

Originally Posted by RIJIMMY

Johnny or Bill, any idea whats up with Mansfield this year? My quarterly bill was up a lot.

I am appealing

[UserRemoved1]

Bill come back later and tell us how you did pse. Be interested to see what you saved for the time invested.

Originally Posted by striperman36

I am appealing

[nightfighter]

Comp rates around north shore.


How Does Marblehead's Tax Rate Compare Across North Shore? - Marblehead, MA Patch

[RIJIMMY]

Originally Posted by striperman36

I am appealing

I just got off the phone with them. I took the new annual tax and divided it by 4 (qtrly) and the amount due was over by about $100. It didnt make sense to me.
They said that the town is on a fiscal y/e of June. So, the last 2 quarterly payments (in 2010) are actually "estimated" and that I now (and I assume you too) have to make up for the last 2 quarters at the new tax rate.
Nuts.

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by JohnnyD

It is interesting to me that a thread about Property Tax is 20 posts deep and not a single mention of Prop 2 1/2. Towns can't just arbitrarily increase taxes more than 2.5% without requesting an override.

One thing that Bigfish leaves out is if he's paying more money while his assessed value has actually gone down.

As an aside, I've always found the Assessor position being appointed by the town BS. Terrible conflict of interest.

It can go up incrementally 2.5% over one year, but over, say, 10 years, it can go up exponentially.

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by Mike P

It can go up incrementally 2.5% over one year, but over, say, 10 years, it can go up exponentially.

Compounding interest... 2.5% hasn't kept pace with inflation.

[UserRemoved1]

show me something that shows they arbitrarily changed the tax rate to get more money out of the guy. so far all you've shown is that someone possibly saw a discrepancy in the database and changed it to what they though proper. By your own assertion they even apologized. You prove to me that any town gets away with arbitrarily changing tax rates to increase income. When you do you got my full public apology.

This is getting off tangent here.

We're still waiting to hear back from the original complainer. I'd very much like to know the answers to the questions previously posted. I don't have a problem paying for services used. Some do evidently.