Hello Everyone, I got home from work and found a letter in my mailbox from the city. It seems my property has been reassessed and increased by 47,000 dollars. My home wich i finally paid in full three years ago is now going to coat me 5,000 dollars a year in property taxes. I got rid of the bank but now a new slave owner is asking me to pay up to live in my own home. Whats really going on. They killed the business owners and are laying the loss of tax revenue onto the home owners. These thieves are stealing from their own citizens. And don't get me started on the innumerable fees everywhere. Firehydrent, garbage can fees, wheel tax ( every car in the city pays 40.00 for each wheel touching the road) this is thievery. Taxation without representation. Thieves!!!
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We just went through this in Cherokee County, Georgia. Very well run, fiscally conservative, second lowest taxes in the state.
Our tax bills went through the roof this year.
2/3 of our bills is schools and the school system is in charge of that. After 62 we don't have to pay the school tax.
For the remainder, here the county sets the millage rate, but the state is in charge of the assessments. In fact, they slapped the county for not raising the assessments enough last year.
Our Commission Chair and our State Rep had public meetings to explain this and to talk about solutions, one of which is to raise the home value ceiling. Right now it's I think $425,000 exempt from taxes. With values skyrocketing, people who bought a house thirty years ago for a fraction of that now are above that limit. Here it's literally a matter for some of losing the family farm.
Do call the assessor's office. Find out if you can refute it. Some people have luck doing that.