Re: Taxing non profits does your state and your opinions

Posted by wisbaker on March 21, 2015 at 08:25:47 from (173.26.84.185):

In Reply to: Taxing non profits does your state and your opinions posted by jocco on March 21, 2015 at 06:43:36:

Florida had an interesting item in their tax code. When we purchased our house the individual who owned it before us was a disabled Veteran, an thus paid no property taxes, how ever he was assessed for "Municipal Services" so his property tax was about 10-20% of what it would normally be. IRRC he had to pay storm water, street lights and 911 fees. Of course since it was already on the rolls that year with him the owner we only had a property tax liability for the first 5 months we owned the house of about $100, the next year it was $1200. This is a good concept but could be abused by local governments, and like any government good luck getting them to follow the rules.

When I worked for the county there was a lot of animosity between us and the city and city workers because the county didn't pay property taxes. It was so bad that the city would actively block the county from acquiring any land adjacent to the Courthouse as then they couldn't tax it. At the same time the city wouldn't address the issue that on any given day more than half the parking spaces in the Courthouse parking lots were occupied by employees and customers of various for profit entities, increasing our need for parking spaces. When the storm water tax was implemented we had to pay it, they attacked us drunken with power taxing is in a few instances for more square footage then the entire parcel was. At that time you had a situation where the county was paying storm water tax on about twice the parking spaces that the county really needed as half our parking lots were used by private business. In effect the county was subsidizing a bank, several title companies and a few law offices.

Other problems in the Northern part of our County where in some townships the majority of land was county Forest, State Forest, State Park, National Forest or Commercial Forest Reserve. The Commercial Forest Reserve didn't hurt them as much as they got a percentage of the stumpage but revenue went down when lumber went down. On the State lands the state would pay an offset BUT any time money got tight in Madison the offset would get reduced by the representatives from Madison, Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha, so aid to cities would be increased.

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