Posted on 09/08/2013 6:31:51 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
> > Additionally, families living in apartments with 5 kids get schooling benefits of almost $60,000, yet do not pay in a dime. < <
The landlord pays the taxes and passes it on to the renters.
No discounts, but we live in a very very small town in the middle of nowhere.
We called Direct TV to get football this year and the company that prides themselves on next day installation will be here on the 25th to install. It took 3 1/2 weeks to get someone here to fix our refrigerator, but I wouldn’t trade it for the world. Our kids have free reign over the town in the summer, it is a very nice place to live.
I can’t even imagine paying that much for property taxes, course if my house caught on fire it would burn down by the time the volunteers got to the fire house 2 blocks away and got here to put it out.
The building owner pays property taxes right?
Those taxes are paid with rent collections right?
So tell me again how renters don’t indirectly pay property taxes?
But honestly, we wound NOT have these types of problems if only land owners could vote.
Ha. I think some sort of bill or promise of a bill has been working its way for the past 20 years, and we got stugotts to show for it...
As it stands now, with PA schools primarily funded by local property taxes, the PA legislators of both parties are fine with that. Most of the tax increases have to occur at the local level and they can claim they held the line on state spending and taxes.
Shift the tax from the local level to the state (via sales taxes and income taxes) and now they are responsible for increased spending and taxes.
It's a lot of lip service. Most of the state legislators are just fine with how things are...
I know what you are saying, but technically they do pay.
I live in PA and had a rental property (used to live in it) and I paid the same property taxes on it as a rental as when I lived in it. The renters paid me rent, then I paid the property tax. So yes, the renters do not pay property taxes directly, but it is part of their rent and the property owner pays it out of the money he collects for rent.
What is your local income tax, state income tax, and sales tax rate? PA is 1%, 3%, and 6% respectively.
How is it fair that a couple with no kids pays vastly more than a family with 6 or 7 kids in an apartment? I am sorry, but if you have kids you need to pay addl taxes for each one.
No local income tax, State income tax is
For single taxpayers:
1.51 percent on the first $35,350 of taxable income.
2.82 percent on taxable income between $35,351 and $85,650.
3.13 percent on taxable income between $85,651 and $178,650.
3.63 percent on taxable income between $178,651 and $388,350.
3.99 percent on taxable income of $388,351 and above.
For married persons filing joint returns:
1.51 percent on the first $59,100 of taxable income.
2.82 percent on taxable income between $59,101 and $142,700.
3.13 percent on taxable income between $142,701 and $217,450.
3.63 percent on taxable income between $217,451 and $388,350.
3.99 percent on taxable income of $388,351 and above.
And sales tax rate is 6%.
“I know what you are saying, but technically they do pay.”
Or if they are on welfare, technically we all pay....
Property taxes are driving young adults back into the homes of their parents because they just can’t afford Red England rents...consider yourself blessed if you can find a rent shy of four figures.
Because you're racist.
Yep, or Section 8...
As a landlord I can tell we factor in the cost of the property tax into the amount of rent we charge.
Thank the minivan ninnies who would vote in any property tax increase FOR THE CHILDREN...and “education”.
Hey, I'm with you... But the property tax, abhorrent as it is, is based on the value of the property, not who lives on it, and not based on the ability to pay. I see elderly relatives struggle with it every year. It's an unfair, antiquated tax.
You know if you suggest we start basing it on the number of kids in school, you get the argument that educating our kids helps "all of us". You know, the village to raise a child thing.
How about my situation... I pay nearly $7,000 per year in property/school taxes in SE PA, but all 4 of my kids go or went to Catholic school, preschool through 8th grade, so I paid (and am still paying) tuition AND property tax for a school system they don't use...
Which is true IF those kids return after college to live and work there, rarely happens.
Well... the kids often return to live there after college... to move back in with their parents, because they aren't working!
Oh I know.. I pay less now for my place on the lake, p and i, taxes and insurance included (out side of the metro’s tax reach) than I did for a tiny 3 bedroom apartment.
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