The Florida legislature is thinking about eliminating the real estate tax on a persons primary residence and increasing the state sales tax from six per cent to eight and one half per cent.
This is the letter that I sent to the Orlando Sentinel in regards to the matter.
We purchased a home in Lake County in 2000. Our neighbors closed on the house next door with 90 days of our purchase. We paid about 26% more than they did. Our Ad Valorem taxes are now two and one half times higher than theirs. The reason is that we live down here for only three months of the year. The Homestead credit on the taxation is a good idea, but not treating all of the property equally in valuation is just plain wrong. We use only a proportionate amount of the services based upon the time we are here we do not have students in school, yet we pay two and half times the tax. The non-Ad Valorem taxes are the same yet we do not use the garbage as much or would use the fire and rescue as much.
One of the rallying cries of the Revolutionary War was taxation without representation and this is a prime example of that. Have all of the business and non residents pay the taxes and we will not have to pay as much. There is no free lunch and now they want to throw in free lodging with the free lunch, I hope not. Do you not think that we worked just as hard for our money as the people that live here? If you do not think so, tell us and we will all sell our homes down here and the real estate market will really crash. Better yet, maybe my cousin with six kids still wants the place, that should add to the school burden, welfare and all of the other associated costs.
This is the reason that I do not feel that replacing a unfair real estate tax with one that is more unfair, the sales tax paid mostly by the people that can afford it the least is proper.
David X. XXXX
2251 XXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXX
XXXXXXXX, FL XXXXX
XXX-XXX-XXXX
Has the whole country gone daffy, do they just all want to tax and spend without regards to common sense?
This is the letter that I sent to the Orlando Sentinel in regards to the matter.
We purchased a home in Lake County in 2000. Our neighbors closed on the house next door with 90 days of our purchase. We paid about 26% more than they did. Our Ad Valorem taxes are now two and one half times higher than theirs. The reason is that we live down here for only three months of the year. The Homestead credit on the taxation is a good idea, but not treating all of the property equally in valuation is just plain wrong. We use only a proportionate amount of the services based upon the time we are here we do not have students in school, yet we pay two and half times the tax. The non-Ad Valorem taxes are the same yet we do not use the garbage as much or would use the fire and rescue as much.
One of the rallying cries of the Revolutionary War was taxation without representation and this is a prime example of that. Have all of the business and non residents pay the taxes and we will not have to pay as much. There is no free lunch and now they want to throw in free lodging with the free lunch, I hope not. Do you not think that we worked just as hard for our money as the people that live here? If you do not think so, tell us and we will all sell our homes down here and the real estate market will really crash. Better yet, maybe my cousin with six kids still wants the place, that should add to the school burden, welfare and all of the other associated costs.
This is the reason that I do not feel that replacing a unfair real estate tax with one that is more unfair, the sales tax paid mostly by the people that can afford it the least is proper.
David X. XXXX
2251 XXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXX
XXXXXXXX, FL XXXXX
XXX-XXX-XXXX
Has the whole country gone daffy, do they just all want to tax and spend without regards to common sense?