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Post by tiredoftaxes on Oct 5, 2012 19:35:22 GMT -5
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Post by tiredoftaxes on Oct 6, 2012 17:05:55 GMT -5
Here's another story from Newsday. www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/school-tax-rates-skyrocket-in-nassau-1.4080765Time for the Wantagh BOE to make very serious cuts to next year's budget....The only way our your taxes will have a chance to go down or at least stay the same, is to make a serious cut to the overall amount needed to fund the school district vs. what was passed for this year...Please put pressure on the Board to do this!!! There are no other miracle bullets out there folks!!!! Don't let anyone blind-side you. Your property values will go down as a result of these high school taxes... tiredoftaxes |
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Post by Chris_Wendt on Oct 9, 2012 10:16:35 GMT -5
My school tax increase is $760. That's just the increase, and just on the school part. The word "untenable" is most appropriate. Indefensible; unable to be supported or maintained.
The phrase, "taxation without representation" is also apt.
Two hundred thirty six years ago a new nation was founded here because of taxation without representation.
So, it looks like, here we go again....
Now, we cannot in any manner blame this instance on the Board of Education. They did what was expected of them and brought in a tax levy increase under the Two-percent Tax Cap. Thank you.
However, I don't see how this cruel tax surprise would not redound to the utter detriment of the next Wantagh budget.
I will state right now that we need to pass the next budget, so WE need to get ready to help the BoE develop a budget that might pass. The Board really needs to re-think killing the BAC, or else help--and support--for the budget will be extremely hard to find.
Chris Wendt
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Post by tiredoftaxes on Oct 9, 2012 11:17:26 GMT -5
Chris, if you didn't protest your property's assessed value in the past, I encourage you and everyone else to it in the coming year...
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Post by Chris_Wendt on Oct 9, 2012 12:34:19 GMT -5
I appealed mine and received a whopping reduction. However, the New Deal is this: Nassau County is handing out whopping reductions to settle grievances. But the settlement cannot be appealed, and if an appeal is filed a MUCH SMALLER adjustment will result, guaranteed. Also, adjustments are now for one year only, and after that year, you go right back to your former assessed value! But then you can appeal again, and maybe get another whopper reduction. Just, maybe. You can only appeal one year ahead; you cannot stack up a bunch of future appeals on file.
I suggest getting a lawyer who specializes in this. Fred Perry is one. Recommended by a good friend of mine.
Think of this: every dollar of my whopper assessment reduction will have to be made up by increasing the taxes of people who have not appealed their assessments. You have to be in it to win it, or, be prepaired to pay ever more vast sums of money. My taxes went up big time even with a whopper reduction!
But you do know that eventually everyone will have filed a grievance and had their assessments lowered by a whopper percentage. Then, everyone's taxes will all go up together from there! And then, too, the County will have long since run out of money to be making any more whopper re-assessment offers.
Chris Wendt
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Post by tiredoftaxes on Oct 9, 2012 15:08:59 GMT -5
Chris, I bought a condo in Las Vegas a few years back...Nevada has better laws regarding their tax caps. Nevada allows an out of state resident to own 1 vacation property as a primary residence to be elgible for 3% cap. You cannot rent out this property to get the 3% cap. The 3% cap is on an owners tax liability not the value of poperty. This is a true cap and is what we need in NY...Government budgets don't matter to me because my tax bill wll only go up a maximum of 3% a year...
TAX ABATEMENT
The Nevada State Legislature has passed a law to provide property tax relief to all citizens. NRS 361.4723 provides a partial abatement of taxes by applying a 3% cap on the tax bill of the owner's primary residence (single-family house, townhouse, condominium or manufactured home). Only one property may be selected in the State of Nevada as a primary residence. Some rental dwellings that meet the low-income rent limits may also qualify for a 3% cap on the tax bill.
A cap of up to 8% on the tax bill will be applied to residences that are not owner occupied. The up to 8% cap would also apply to land, commercial buildings, business personal property, aircraft, etc. New construction or property that has a change of use (zoning change or manufactured home conversion) will not qualify for any cap for this fiscal year but will receive the 3% or up to an 8% cap starting July 1, 2013.
Our Office mails postcards to new homeowners, newly constructed homes, and parcels that have had other changes that may qualify for a 3% cap on their tax bill. Taxpayers that have already qualified for the 3% tax cap will receive or retain their tax abatement for the 2012/2013 tax year. The cap will not be applied if your taxes as assessed are lower than the capped tax amount.
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Post by tiredoftaxes on Oct 10, 2012 14:43:37 GMT -5
By now, most wantagh residents have received their school tax bills. If you have not seen it, go to mynassau.com and compare your current year's tax liability to last year's bill. Unless, you protested your property value and received a hefty reduction, your school tax bill probably went up at least $300(probably a lot more than a 2% increase). I would encourage all of youl to reach out to the school adminsitration & the Board of Education to voice your concerns. As I mentioned in an earlier post, the only way to stop the increases in your tax bill going forward, is tha the overall amount to fund the school district needs to be cut. Instead of increasing the budget by 2%, let's try a novel approach and cut it by at least 2% this coming year. Do not let these school offiicials blind-side you with bs. Wantagh BOE controls the budget, not the Nassau county Assessors office, nor the TOH Receiver's office.
Nassau County also needs to get their broken assessment models fixed, but until that happens, Wantagh residents via the School Board of ED deserve to see no increases to the overall school budget.
tiredoftaxes
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Post by tiredoftaxes on Oct 10, 2012 16:48:19 GMT -5
A story per today's NY Post, page 2: Tax hell makes NY dead last for biz www.nypost.com/p/news/local/tax_hell_makes_ny_dead_last_for_0Tubz6CAQaqGw086pHMAoKFolks, it's election season...Maybe it's time to make demands to our elected officials that operate in Albany that property owners want a tax cap on their actual tax bill from one year to the next, such as what they have in Nevada. IT'S TIME TO PUT A STOP TO THIS TAX AND SPEND MENTALITY!!! |
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Post by jdelisa on Oct 10, 2012 20:36:35 GMT -5
 mynassau.com doesn't seem to be the correct site to look up county property tax data, I use www.nassaucountyny.gov/mynassauproperty/main.jsp : - click on Property Search
- <accept> on the bottom of next page and
- enter your street address (or section, block and lot for the very brave).
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Post by tiredoftaxes on Oct 10, 2012 23:46:24 GMT -5
Thank you for that correction...
We should all start by reaching out to Senaotor Charles J. Fuschillo Jr.and tell him that we demand a cap on our individual property tax liability bill like what they have in Nevada per the above post...If he has any guts, he'll help push some legislation in this matter....Stick it to him...He abuses the emergency auto phone call systemn which we paid for, with his annoying campaign messages anyway...His email address is:
fuschill@nysenate.gov
I'm tiredoftaxes
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Post by Chris_Wendt on Oct 11, 2012 13:27:29 GMT -5
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mynassau.com doesn't seem to be the correct site