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Posted on 05/09/2025 7:00:25 AM PDT by george76
A Long Island suburb voted to wallop homeowners with a 87% property tax hike— with local officials saying the insane increase was necessary because of a years-long administrative goof.
Atlantic Beach’s village board of trustees told residents the big number was needed because of how taxes were assessed by the county in recent decades but officials refused to give The Post further information or answer any questions.
The Nassau County assessor said it was the village government that was improperly billing commercial properties.
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Though village officials blamed assessment quirks, some residents said part of the hike is to cover more than $500,000 in legal fees in an ongoing legal battle with The Chabad of the Beaches, a Jewish organization claiming the village discriminated against it.
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“I wouldn’t mind paying more taxes if they would fix the damn boardwalk or do something about the roads that have been a mess since Hurricane Sandy. It’s really not fair, the mayor and the trustees, they’re the ones who should be paying out of their pockets for the lawsuit — not taxpayers, we shouldn’t be footing the bill for their antisemitism,” said one resident, who asked not to be identified in fear of retaliation from the mayor.
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“It’s time for Village officials to stop targeting Chabad of the Beaches and leave this community alone so they can worship in peace,” First Liberty said in a statement.
Residents are planning to attend the next board of trustees meeting to demand answers and accountability.
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Government makes mistakes all the time.
They don’t pay for their mistakes.
You do.
Man...that’s going to leave a mark!
Years ago this kind of nonsense was happening in Michigan. A grassroots group popped up holding seminars on how to fight your property tax increases. They held sessions several nights over a few months with thousands of participants.at each one.
It tied up the assessors office for a year or two as they were working people’s appeals of the increase. We appealed. We found many inconsistencies with our tax assessment. One I recall is that we were being taxed more for having ceramic tile. The only ceramic tile in our house was a 3x4 foot landing at the front door. That was about a $50 improvement to our house. Certainly not something to increase the overall value.
We won our appeal.
Funny how the “mistakes” always seem to work in governments’ favor.
Fulton county, GA: our property taxes DOUBLED a few years ago. They claimed we should be thankful it hadn’t gone up before, and they were just accounting for all the previous times it should have been increased. We complained. They gave us a year at the previous rate and then raised it. Supposedly my house is now “worth” twice what I paid. (But so is every other house.)
I would like to know why, if the value of your house goes up, your property taxes must also. Does it cost the municipality more to maintain the roads, police, etc., when there is no increase in the number of people living there? Why should I pay more property tax simply because I renovated a bathroom and put in granite countertops?
-PJ
Can anyone really get away with an 87 percent hike?
the solution is simple: vote the Board of Trustees out of office ... but they’re probably progs and the opposition are not, so the progs probably have lifetime tenure ... perfect example of the voters getting the government they voted for: good and hard ...
They got by without the $$ previously, so why is the mill rate not adjusted?
We need DOGE codified nationally to END wasteful AND CRIMINAL spending of all tax dollars, Federal, State AND LOCAL, nationwide. Period!
“I would like to know why, if the value of your house goes up, your property taxes must also.”
it’s only because corrupt governments take advantage of that situation to reap a windfall ...
the way that property tax is SUPPOSED to work is that a government calculates its budgetary needs for the coming year and then calculates an ad valorem [property] tax rate, that when multiplied by the total valuation of all real property in its jurisdiction, will result in the amount of property taxes budgeted by the government to perform its functions ...
but corrupt governments will keep the ad valorem [property] tax rate unchanged [or only minimally reduced] when property values zoom upwards and reap a windfall, lying to the ignorant voters that it isn’t the government’s fault that property taxes increased, because after all, their property increased in value ...
2,000 a year property taxes goes up to 3740. Looks like my homeowners insurance in Florida. Ha!
was mom onboard with those two succulent ladies that came with the cabana?
3740 seems like a bargain for HO Insurance in FL.
“ I would like to know why, if the value of your house goes up, your property taxes must also. ”
It shouldn’t. One should maybe have to pay property tax only once upon acquiring said property. An annual tax on property I “own” is obscene. I had argued that I could not sell my house fully furnished for what they currently had it appraised for.
I’m lucky I live in central Florida and have USAA. It has gone up like that in two years. First year 1,000. Second year 600. Weirdly, I was thankful it was only 600 more this year. It’s now 3865. When I moved here ten years ago, it was around 1800.
“I would like to know why, if the value of your house goes up, your property taxes must also. “
Do property taxes go down during cycles when home/property values are decreasing?
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