Posted on 04/01/2025 12:19:13 PM PDT by Jacquerie
He wants lawmakers to issue $1,000 for each of about 5.1 million homesteaded properties in the state. The rebates would be issued in December, covering state-mandated school property taxes, which he says would prevent a loss in funding for districts.
“We need to focus on our Florida residents and to focus on in this case, Florida homeowners, particularly our homesteaded homeowners and we need to focus our relief there.”
The second-term Republican governor and former presidential candidate said he wants a ballot initiative aimed at lower property taxes on the 2026 ballot that he says will provide “robust protections” for homeowners in the state constitution.
He also said property taxes are an anomaly because these taxes aren’t voluntary consumption based and basically mean homeowners are paying “rent” to the government for their property, even if the mortgage is fully paid.
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how many will to illegals?
“how many will to illegals?”
If an illegal has a homesteaded home, then, yes, he’d be eligible. But having bought several homes in Florida, you have to have all sorts of documentation. I’m guessing it would be hard for an illegal to buy a home. Maybe, but then they’d be owed the refund. Regardless of their status. It’s a refund of taxes paid.
So I only get a refund on my primary home, not my rental properties? It’s better than a stick in the eye. But it should be for every home, not just homesteaded.
Where the hell in the Florida budget is that money going to come from?
In November, 2024 the American Federation of Teachers hijacked Hillsborough County's government and school board, and then, by ballot Referendum, swindled 717,000 homeowners out of $414 million in increased property taxes to guarantee 15,160 public school teachers a completely undeserved pay hike for each of them of $24,000 over four years.
Where was Tallahassee the whole time the AFT completely had its way with Hillsborough's homeowners, and then, as it quietly slinked away, essentially told them all to go put some ice on it?
“So I only get a refund on my primary home, not my rental properties? It’s better than a stick in the eye. But it should be for every home, not just homesteaded.”
Who is paying the cost of taxes on your rental properties; you or your renters?
If you are paying the cost of taxes on rental properties, you should think about building it into the monthly rent. Every other successful landlord does.
Yeah.
I’ve had my mortgage paid off for over 20 years. It does feel like paying rent, eternally.
And property taxes supposedly go towards funding public schools and teachers. But, in my family, we’ve donet home-schooling form most years, ant that included home=schooling my son and daughter, and now they’re home-schooling their own kids. You’d think there would be a break for home-schooling households. bu NO!
Still, this is Florida and overall, the cost of living here is lower than most other states, since we don’t have state income taxes, or city income taxes, like we did while living in NYC.
He's correct, property taxes should be eliminated.
“Where the hell in the Florida budget is that money going to come from?”
DeSantis has $20 billion in his back pocket.
“You’d think there would be a break for home-schooling households. bu NO!”
But YES!
I suggest that you and your kids do your homework.
I’m moving to Florida at just the right time.
I posted before I saw that you were from NYC. Are your kids in Florida?
Florida real estate tax law favors long time homesteaders.
Be sure to file for the homestead exemption in the first January after your move.
We are taking advantage of the new “scholarship” in Florida. I really hate it being referred to as a scholarship though.
“swindled”
Swindled?
Voters passed with 67%.
What do you expect a Tallahassee to do?
Overturn a voter mandate?
The swindle is that the Referendum was advertised as "For The Children". It was a targeted ad campaign that ran for months prior to the election. We do not have a lot of very bright people in the Sunshine State. Primarily because student performance in public schools has been abysmal for years.
Add to that toxic mix non-homeowner voters who will never turn down a chance to spend someone else's money like it was their own.
If you don't see something radically wrong with how the homeowners in Hillsborough County were targeted and then fleeced by a nationwide Democrat special-interest public employee labor union, you truly do not belong on Free Republic.
I mean that sincerely.
“We do not have a lot of very bright people in the Sunshine State. Primarily because student performance in public schools has been abysmal for years.”
Florida schools are ranked #1 in the nation.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education
Florida, last 37 years, NYC before that.
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