You keep electing the same people to office and then you keep complaining how you don’t like the way your being treated, especially in regards to your property taxes, what’s wrong with this picture? If you can’t realize that these people you put into office are the pawns of big business, aka, lobbyists then your going to forever be treated this way! The lobbyists are the ones who pay for those commercials that you see ever 5 minutes, more or less, on T.V., that basically make you brain dead so that when you enter the voting both your mind just sees the name that you have been listening to for the last year and a half, guess who you vote for?
The legislation that was passed last year that took effect this year that was suppose to give you a big discount on your tax bill only amounted to around 1.9% deduction on your tax bill. For the average homeowner, probably, a twenty to thirty dollar savings. These owners are not happy, and even the owners of half million dollar, or more, estates are not happy, of course their savings are more because their tax bills are higher, so they can save several hundred dollars on their tax bill. So WHAM, they got you again!
But wait, that’s not all, the legislation states that if your Market value decreases, your Assessed value WILL NOT, IF YOUR HOMESTEADING, unless the Market value should go down below your Assessed value! This fundamentally makes your Homestead a liability under this scenerio. Which amounts to defeating the whole purpose of why the homestead law was orginally passed, and that was to protect homeowners who make Florida their permanent residents from the dramatic increases in property values being reflected in their property taxes. WHAM, they got you again!
Oh, but it gets even better, FOR THEM, if your Homesteading and you add someone to your property and then to your Homestead, your CAP comes off, and the property rolls up to the fair market value, resulting in a much higher tax bill and WHAM, they got you again!
So the question remains, how long will you put up with this?
