Posted on 04/04/2025 5:11:34 AM PDT by Phoenix8
Property taxes are due twice a year. You will receive a statement with upcoming due dates in April. Statements include two coupons, one for each due date, to be used when mailing a payment or when paying in person or at a bank. Current property tax due dates are:
May 10, 2024 November 12, 2024 You may pay all your property taxes for the year on the first due date, or pay in two installments. View a list of your payment options.
(Excerpt) Read more at indy.gov ...
State property tax makes a mockery of the whole concept of “private property”. Do we really OWN land, buildings etc or just pay rent to our monstrous government?
At some point, maybe at a certain age, there should be no property tax. A lifetime of paying taxes should have some sort of reprieve in retirement.
The mailman lost my city services check. Got an official, really nasty, water ‘cut off’ notice within a day of the past due date. Can’t imagine what happens after failing to pay the property taxes.
No we really don’t own
In TN we receive a bill in Oct and have to pay by the end of Feb
Hey Michigan...
There is a petition to put elimination of property taxes on the 2026 ballot...
AxMitax is the website
The property tax is just the government’s way of confiscating your property, a little bit at a time.
Assuming a tax rate of 3%, then it will take about 33 years for the government to have seized the entire value of your property.
They disguise the rate by calling it a “mill rate.”
Government hates private property, but it doesn’t just take your house. It tells you that you “own” it (you are responsible for the maintenance, cutting the grass, paying insurance and utilities and getting sued if someone falls on your sidewalk.)
I’m told my property taxes are used to support education. I’m told the state lottery profits are used to support education.
I guess the question is whether or not you believe in the social contract where everyone pays to support the roads, schools, fire departments, etc.
Your recourse is to move to a place where the taxes are lower; incent businesses to come to your community to offset the tax base; or get better state and local management to handle your tax money.
If everyone had to personally draft payment for income taxes as small business owners do, suspect things would be much different.
Congrats on being an adult.
If someone’s over 60, house paid off, modest pension, good health, decent 401k, maybe they should consider renting. Have a boatload of cash from the home sale and let someone else pay the property taxes and maintenance. There are definitely advantages to renting over owning. Read one or two articles from the internet machine and do the math for your situation and open your mind. I did and it’s eye-opening.
Property taxes are immoral and annihilate the concept of private property.
If you are paying taxes for “your” property, it isn’t yours and never will be.
I hate the one on cars more in Indiana.
PA - same deal.
You would think that Americans in property-tax states would rebel in the sense that any politician supporting or defending any sort of property tax would never win an election.
There seems to be no will or coordination for residents of property tax states to change these oppressive tax laws. We are serfs meant to sustain the government.
“Assuming a tax rate of 3%...”
Assuming a tax rate of 3%, then it will take about 33 years for the government to have seized the entire value of your property.
I know some states have higher property taxes, thankfully my Montana property taxers are about 1/3 of 1%.
That’s about 300 years...
AND we do NOT have a sales tax.
Sounds like serfdom.
Exactly.
I agree wholeheartedly.
But...we're in PA, and my folks left their home and properties in NY and NJ when I was a baby, because they were fed up with taxes and crime. The property tax on a very large house there -- then -- was more than 20 times what it is here right now.
Property tax is the most insidious tax there is for many of the reasons stated in above posts. Year after year, the real owner collects the “rent” while the one that thinks they own it has the responsibility to keep up the rent owner’s property....
Wanna see who really owns it? Just quit paying it, one will quickly find out.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.