Re: [Chat] prop tax

2011-07-12 Thread jberlin
lage Chat List *Sent:* Saturday, July 9, 2011 1:31 PM *Subject:* Re: [Chat] prop tax i appreciate everyone's response. However I still don't get it. It sounds as if I am still paying the tax for last years assessment and then some. 3 years ago my assessment was 116k. It went up to

Re: [Chat] prop tax

2011-07-10 Thread Stephen J Gewirtz
Judy, In a nutshell, the homestead tax credit says that your effective assessment, for City tax purposes cannot go up by more than 4% from one year to the next. In other words, if you had a low assessment a few years ago, then no matter how much your actual assessment goes up when your house

Re: [Chat] prop tax

2011-07-10 Thread jberlin
thanks Steve. What is the homestead tax credit based on? Not % but the original figure used as the base? On 07/09/2011 03:52 PM, Stephen J Gewirtz wrote: Judy, Think of it this way: Three years ago, thanks to the homestead tax credit, my tax was about $2000. And over the following three ye

Re: [Chat] prop tax

2011-07-09 Thread Stephen J Gewirtz
Judy, Think of it this way: Three years ago, thanks to the homestead tax credit, my tax was about $2000. And over the following three years, it went up by about $100 per year, so this year it is about $2300. Without the homestead tax credit, my tax last year would have been about $6000. I

Re: [Chat] prop tax

2011-07-09 Thread Joshua Fruhlinger
Right, but because of the tax credit you were probably never paying the full tax on that 116k. That's the credit part. jf On Jul 9, 2011, at 1:31 PM, jberlin wrote: > i appreciate everyone's response. However I still don't get it. It sounds as > if I am still paying the tax for last years ass

Re: [Chat] prop tax

2011-07-09 Thread Jonathan Wetmiller
of a much lower property tax rate for everyone. JonĀ  From: jberlin To: The Charles Village Chat List Sent: Saturday, July 9, 2011 1:31 PM Subject: Re: [Chat] prop tax i appreciate everyone's response. However I still don't get it. It sounds as

Re: [Chat] prop tax

2011-07-09 Thread jberlin
i appreciate everyone's response. However I still don't get it. It sounds as if I am still paying the tax for last years assessment and then some. 3 years ago my assessment was 116k. It went up to 133k. Now it is back down to 116k. Yet I'm paying more than the previous yrs. On 07/08/2011 05:5

Re: [Chat] prop tax

2011-07-08 Thread Stephen J Gewirtz
Joshua is right about how the taxes work. Under the homestead tax law, if your home is owned by you and is your principal residence, your effective assessment (what you actually pay taxes on) can go up by no more than 10% per year compounded. The 10% figure is used for state tax purposes (if

Re: [Chat] prop tax

2011-07-08 Thread Joshua Fruhlinger
OK, so I just looked at my own email and realized that was way too complicated an explanation. Here's a simpler one: Your property tax bill is EITHER 2.268 percent of the assessed value OR 3 percent more than you paid the previous year, whichever is LOWER. If you've lived in your house since

Re: [Chat] prop tax

2011-07-08 Thread Joshua Fruhlinger
If you're getting a homestead tax credit, your tax can only go up a little bit every year (I think 3 percent) as long as you stay in your home. But it will go up that amount until it hits the amount you'd pay without the credit. After the housing bubble in the mid-'00s a lot of property's asse

[Chat] prop tax

2011-07-08 Thread jberlin
Have many people received property tax bills higher than last year even with the lower property assessment? ___ Chat mailing list Chat@charlesvillage.info http://charlesvillage.info/mailman/listinfo/chat_charlesvillage.info archive: http://www.mail-ar