preemptive taxation...
Posted on 06/02/2018 7:15:28 PM PDT by Elderberry
HUACO – Owners of commercial and residential property in this city are facing across-the-board increases in assessed valuation declared by appraisers who offer no clear evidence to support their claims.
The implications are clear.
Taxing entities have mandated a new and onerous cost of doing business and cost of living for householders in support of a militarized civil police force that is heavily engaged in militant political enforcement.
Through a clever set of interlocking directorates of taxing entities and their representation by board members of industrial corporations on the McLennan Appraisal District, the local council of governments in cooperation with state and national governments operate under a nexus of control unparalleled in any previous period of history.
---Taxpayers are facing massive liability for potential judgments in federal civil rights suits that could amount to multibillions of dollars in settlement.
Increased assessments on properties are estimated to factor 12 percent on residential properties, and 17 percent on commercial parcels.
There is an appeals process.
We turned to a property management professional who is presently involved in administrative remedy of his predicament.
A family business which owns or controls about 1,000 parcels in cities scattered across the face of McLennan County, Crawford Austin is headquartered in it flagship shopping strip mall at 2910 Franklin Ave., one of a pair of two traffic arteries that bisect Waco north an south along the path of U.S. 84.
Is there a remedy? The answer is yes. The school boards, city councils, Commissioners’ Court, community college district – all are responsible for the selection and appointment of members of the McLennan Central Appraisal District board of directors.
The vast majority of those positions are held by industrial directors of corporations located in the jurisdiction area of the appraisal district.
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preemptive taxation...
One wonders what the City Council in Waco is so worried about. It couldn’t be Civil judgements against the local law enforcement agencies now, could it?
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sheyeah, good luck wi that!
“One wonders what the City Council in Waco is so worried about. It couldn’t be Civil judgements against the local law enforcement agencies now, could it?”
I think you are very close if not dead on target.
I bet that is on their mind for sure. There must be something in the water in Waco and McClennan county. Normal thinking seems to have gone out the window. It’s like the people ar okay with a police state environment or something.
Confiscatory property taxes by local and state governments is going to be the NUMBER ONE issue in the near future.
It’s an old political trick.
We’re not going to raise your property tax rate.
Then they simply raise the appraised rate by huge amounts.
Resulting in higher taxes.
Property taxes should be forbidden because as long as you have them you don’t really own your property. Another political trick.
Re-appraising property is the hard way—there are always lots of appeals and drama.
There is always inequity in appraising property, and at its best appraisal is an art and not a science.
But I guess the local pols think it is the lesser of two evils—I agree they should just tell the truth and raise the tax rate if they are going to collect more taxes.
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