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Good one Will.
Everyone that feels that their appraisal is wrong should file an appeal with the Tax Assessor's office before mid April ... And, the sooner the better is advised.
Commented: Sunday, March 23rd, 2025 @ 9:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Yeah the tax revaluation is insane. There’s an empty quarter acre lot with a cardboard box on it valued at 1.4 million.
Commented: Sunday, March 23rd, 2025 @ 7:40 pm
By: Will Simmons
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Something else I would advocate for would be what other states and localities have done with property taxes which is to limit the amount that property taxes can be increased in any given timeframe. So even if the assessed value were to increase say 100% in 7 years (as happened in this assessment to many people), and the milage rate was decreased to 40 cents per 100 dollars of value, there would be an overall limit to the increase any one property could incur despite assessment value increase that failed to be offset my milage reduction. For instance limiting property tax increases to no more than say 15% in raw dollars over the last assessment would hold the tax burden down for those that are now facing 80% to 100% property tax increases.
Commented: Saturday, March 22nd, 2025 @ 10:41 pm
By: Gary Ceres
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I like this idea. Would also like to see tax abatements on new housing construction to encourage lower cost of living.
Commented: Saturday, March 22nd, 2025 @ 10:34 pm
By: Gary Ceres
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This is what he British were doing to us at the time of the revolution. The King's tax collector came every year and took what he wanted. Now we get to vote for the tax frauds.
Commented: Wednesday, March 19th, 2025 @ 7:56 am
By: Hood Richardson
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True enough Countrygirl1411, and it has always been that way. The oldest tax ever instituted in these United States.
Commented: Wednesday, March 19th, 2025 @ 2:04 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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"Property taxes are arguably the most unethical or immoral tax, especially in the American context. A property tax means one is never truly allowed to own property. In effect, property owners pay the government for the right to buy and hold property so long as they pay property taxes. Practically speaking, it’s as if the government owns the property, and the owner is merely renting it." Thomas Gallatin
Commented: Tuesday, March 18th, 2025 @ 1:53 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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With the Beaufort County revaluation a major topic everywhere I go here in Beaufort County, and I am ever at the ready to discuss the revaluation and other county issues relative to my functionary duties as a county commissioner at any time, I can definitively tell the public of this public square this one truth: The new unneeded school using mostly "Free Money" NOW in these costly days of building, which could have been available later for more worthy, more cost effective and necessary projects, coupled with the half million dollars to save the project because the administration of Beaufort County chose not plan properly, is NOT going over well with the public at large across this county of Beaufort.
As public officials wasting tax dollars is being found out, maybe the taxpayers one day, at large, will have the gumption to make the time to know what is truly occurring in their local governments, know the poor players working on their behalf, and, accordingly, the political interlopers who do NOT function as governing officials as they held themselves out to be ... And then maybe, just maybe, the self-governed folks of Beaufort County will provide me smarter county commissioners to serve with, and a real governing school board of knowledge, who, like the smarter county commissioners, can then hire better bureaucrats who know their place, and they know too who they ultimately serve - the self governed taxpayers of this county.
Commented: Tuesday, March 18th, 2025 @ 12:20 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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