How much do you pay in property taxes?

[GOPisEvil]

Poll question: How much do you pay in property taxes?

I just got my receipt from Travis County thanking me for my payment (thoughtfully made by my mortgage company). The total breaks down as follows:

City of Austin - $404.92
Travis County - $356.26
Pflugerville Independent School District - $1,398.21 :wow:
Hospital District - $56.96
Total - $2,216.35

:hurts: Thank you, sir, may I have another?! :spank:

[DebJ]

1. other: I rent, so I"M the sucker. No, I'm the one whose hours of

labor are getting sucked away...

[4_Legs_Good]

14. You're absolutely right!

Although most of my $ goes to paying interest to fat cat bankers anyway.

Property tax is A-OK with me. Most of it goes to the schools. I live in Prop 13ville, aka California, so it's reasonable all things considered -

$2,500/year on a $500,000 home (which isn't as much as it sounds like in California.)

david

[crispini]

2. It just went up, and it hurts like a MF'er.

And why do we have such high property tax here in Texas? Because that's the way we fund our schools. :mad:

[GOPisEvil]

3. I can't imagine if I had a larger, more expensive house.

We've gotta fix this school funding crap. Now that I'm a home owner, you better believe I want this stuff fixed, STAT! :grr:

[cags]

4. Just moved here and they are double what I used to pay in CA

I can't complain about the schools though, Thats why I left CA. I'm pretty happy with the schools I picked here

[GOPisEvil]

5. My school district is allegedly very good.

I don't have kids, but I hear it's good. I don't mind paying for good schools, but the funding mechanism needs to be fixed.

[Historic NY]

6. Too much.....school taxes are way out of line.......

they shouldn't be link to property value but to income status...in Ny lots of old people with no kids can't afford to pay them.

[trof]

7. My last year in NH, 1992, $6000!

House assessed at $250,000.
Basically %500 per month RENT to the state for the privilege of living there.
whew

[GOPisEvil]

8. Ouch!!!

My house is appraised at $91,000-ish. So, I guess it's comparable.

[supernova]

9. About $1300

about 700 for the house and the lot it's on and about 600 for another undeveloped lot I own.

[Wcross]

10. 390 bucks a year!

I have 15 acres and a small 700 sq ft house. I can pay my yearly taxes without having to budget for it. I mentioned the yearly tax to my Aunt and Uncle who live in New York (Webster) and I had to repeat that it was NOT the monthly tax bill. They pay over 7000 a year!

[Baja Margie]

11. I beat you

$300.00 a year to the Mexican Government.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

12. We paid about $8000/yr. when we lived in Oakmont, PA

I can't remember the estimate in our new Irving, TX home.

[4_Legs_Good]

15. I want 15 acres!!!

:cry:

david

[Wcross]

16. I really want 1500 but am too poor to afford :(

[Cuban_Liberal]

13. Last August's bill:

1080 sq. ft. house, 1960's frame construction, 1/4-acre lot:

Douglas County: $241.17
Village of Arcola: $102.91
Township of Paradise Prairie: $47.62
Arcola CUSD: $402.53
Lakeland CCD: $229.76
Fire Protection Dist.: $114.09

x(

[Gothic Sponge]

17. Around 5k a year.

[NoPasaran]

18. $2,513.06---that's 85 bucks more than last year

I thought our taxes were supposed to be going DOWN under the Fratboy Fuhrer

[bearfan454]

19. That's cheap David

We pay almost 4000 over here. But the hunting land in West Texas has an agricultural exemption and we pay 53 a year for 42 acres.

[Bouncy Ball]

20. Pflugerville

I love saying that out loud. Pflugerville.

But hey you want that money to go to the schools for when all those little GOPisEvils get there, right?

AND I PAY NOTHING IN PROPERTY TAXES!!!!! I WAS THE ONE MILLIONTH CUSTOMER SO I GOT FREE PROPERTY FOR LIFE!!!!!




(Husband pays it, hell I don't know.)

[Paranoid_Portlander]

21. About 130% of my income.

It makes my income tax calculations pretty easy.

[the Princess]

22. You people are nuts!!!!!!!!

Paying those huge property taxes. OMG that's why we left NJ.

We pay - $700.00 a year - that's all.

Like I said you're nuts!

[Lone_Star_Dem]

23. I haven't gotten this years yet.

For the lake house that I sold last years was a whopping $7,000+! The neighbors wanted to know why mine was so low. :eyes:

I'll be in the $2-3,000 range this year.

[mrbill]

24. got my tax current property tax statement on the desk........

Property Taxes in Texas suck, it's time for an income tax. Property taxes in Oklahoma are cheap.

It's a two headed snake. The local taxing entities raise the tax rate, while the appraisal district raises the appraised value of the property.

Beware your local appraisal district. These are the evil people causing causing property taxes to escalate.

In 2000 mrbill manor was assessed at $67,000, in 2005 it's on the rolls for $135,239. No improvements, no nothing except a letter from the insurance campany cancelling the homeowners policy because of an alledged crappy roof and some wood rot on the trim. Screw the insurance company the house is paid for, Homey don't need no homeowners.

And this is in a backwards county in the boondocks of north Texas where nothing is going on economically.

According to my real estate agent spy friend, comperable sales in the neighborhood come in about 80% of the local tax office's evaluations.

2004 tax statement, due by 31 January 05.
Cooke County - 426.52 (about a $100 increase to pay for new jail)
Cooke County Road & Bridge Fund - 158.40
Cooke County Lateral Road - 0.37
City of Gainesville - 871.71
Gainesville Hospital - 215.48
Gainesville ISD - $1677.48

A big fat 2004 total of $3349.96

An old statement tells me that the taxes were $1200 in 1995.

The Texas property tax system is a monster enabled by a chimp out of control.