Texas Property Taxes

[WuWei]

@Safiel

@CanadianJudo

I live on a lake property tax is outrageous but the view is nice.

I just started construction this week on property in North Carolina, in Surry County. Even if I get a relatively high assessment on it, still looking at less than $3,000 a year in property taxes on what will be non-homestead property.

Congratulations on starting construction.

[WuWei]

@Tilly_jow

Don’t you think he’s joking?

Don’t you think jokes are supposed to be funny?

[WuWei]

@kermode

I’ve always hated the idea that folks on a fixed income can be forced from their home due to rising property tax.
I paid off my home 20 years ago, but it feels like I’m still renting it.

Because you are.

[Samson_Corwell]

@Steel-W0LF

@Samson_Corwell

@kermode

I’ve always hated the idea that folks on a fixed income can be forced from their home due to rising property tax.
I paid off my home 20 years ago, but it feels like I’m still renting it.

You’re not still renting it, but your first sentiment is accurate.

Not quite the same but the outcome is the same. If you don’t pay you’re evicted. The diffence is who the check is made out too.

That doesn’t mean you are renting it.

[Samson_Corwell]

@johnrandolph

@Tilly_jow

Taxes are the price you pay for living in civilized society.

Taxes are theft.

Only if you assume a libertarian theory of property. Establishing one as true is a task that has its work cut out for anyone willing to try.

[Smyrna]

@Safiel

I just started construction this week on property in North Carolina, in Surry County. Even if I get a relatively high assessment on it, still looking at less than $3,000 a year in property taxes on what will be non-homestead property.

That’s great my friend and you’ve got some excellent turkey hunting going on around you right now and maybe…right outside your door?

[Smyrna]

What has changed that’s requiring the increase in these specific taxes?

[Borgia_dude]

@Tilly_jow

Texas is far from that point. Sneak just likes to complain.

Agreed. High property taxes in Texas are offset by no state income taxes. Sneaky’s complaints aren’t warranted imo.

[SpacemanSpiff]

Well, as Texas likes to tell any and everybody, there’s no state income taxes there. Gotta make up for the shortfall somewhere. Robbing Peter to pay Paul and all that.

[highroller]

Is there any way around this? If I live in an RV, do I have to pay personal property taxes on the RV itself? Or it is just on real property?

[Axxowiz]

It all matters if one is younger and working it is offset, if you are retired on a fixed income your hurting especially in some of the areas around Dallas and Austin we’re paying $12,000+ a year on a $300,000 house isn’t abnormal.

There are quiet a few states with no income tax that doesn’t have anywhere near Texas level property taxes.

[Smyrna]

@Smyrna

What has changed that’s requiring the increase in these specific taxes?

Lemme ask my Texan residents again…what’s changed to create this new need for additional tax?

[WuWei]

@Samson_Corwell

Only if you assume a libertarian theory of property. Establishing one as true is a task that has its work cut out for anyone willing to try.

The libertarian theory of property?

[WuWei]

@Smyrna

What has changed that’s requiring the increase in these specific taxes?

Government want

[WuWei]

@Borgia_dude

@Tilly_jow

Texas is far from that point. Sneak just likes to complain.

Agreed. High property taxes in Texas are offset by no state income taxes. Sneaky’s complaints aren’t warranted imo.

Property taxes are one thing. Income taxes are a different thing.

[WuWei]

@SpacemanSpiff

Well, as Texas likes to tell any and everybody, there’s no state income taxes there. Gotta make up for the shortfall somewhere. Robbing Peter to pay Paul and all that.

There is no “shortfall”.

[Borgia_dude]

@WuWei

@Borgia_dude

@Tilly_jow

Texas is far from that point. Sneak just likes to complain.

Agreed. High property taxes in Texas are offset by no state income taxes. Sneaky’s complaints aren’t warranted imo.

Property taxes are one thing. Income taxes are a different thing.

Really?

[WuWei]

@Borgia_dude

@WuWei

@Borgia_dude

@Tilly_jow

Texas is far from that point. Sneak just likes to complain.

Agreed. High property taxes in Texas are offset by no state income taxes. Sneaky’s complaints aren’t warranted imo.

Property taxes are one thing. Income taxes are a different thing.

Really?

Yes, really. Just like state and centgov taxes are two different things.

[Borgia_dude]

@WuWei

@Borgia_dude

@WuWei

@Borgia_dude

@Tilly_jow

Texas is far from that point. Sneak just likes to complain.

Agreed. High property taxes in Texas are offset by no state income taxes. Sneaky’s complaints aren’t warranted imo.

Property taxes are one thing. Income taxes are a different thing.

Really?

Yes, really. Just like state and centgov taxes are two different things.

Two different things? Ok.

[WuWei]

@Borgia_dude

Two different things? Ok.

Yes, two different things.