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Los Angeles' 'mansion tax' has frozen luxury home sales: Just TWO homes above $5 million were sold in April after new law passed - down from 126 in March - and the sales netted the city $528,000 in tax to spend on the homeless
Daily Mail ^ | 5/6/23 | Kamal Sultan

Posted on 05/06/2023 10:10:10 AM PDT by CFW

The newly introduced Los Angeles 'mansion tax' has frozen luxury home sales with just two properties above $5 million sold in April which is down from 126 in March.

The policy, which came into effect April 1, sees the city take a four percent cut of all home sales between $5 million and $10 million.

And for mega mansions that break the $10 million threshold, homeowners lose 5.5 percent of their sale price if they decide to cash in on their estate.

There were just two homes sold for more than $5 million once the new policy was introduced in April, according to the Los Angeles Times.

These sales netted the city $528,000 to spend on affordable housing and homelessness prevention programs.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; homeless; losangeles; mansiontax; reducerevenue; taxes; tyranny
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Conservatives warned that this would be the result of such a law. I know that many rushed to sell these houses before the law went into effect. Even so, that is an amazing drop in sales number. Increased taxes, especially punitive taxes, usually result in less taxes actually being collected although voters were promised otherwise.
1 posted on 05/06/2023 10:10:10 AM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW

I’ll bet the Hollywood creeps got a loophole


2 posted on 05/06/2023 10:13:59 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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The way they spend money on the “homeless” this amounts to six people.


3 posted on 05/06/2023 10:14:47 AM PDT by SkyDancer (Hold on tight to your dream)
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“These sales netted the city $528,000 to spend on affordable housing and homelessness prevention programs”

1. Half a rock really isn’t all that much money nowadays.

2. How much of that 528k you think will actually go to where it’s supposed to be going?.......I’d guess about 30%.....at best.


4 posted on 05/06/2023 10:16:50 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: SkyDancer

Make that “six people running the homeless industry.”


5 posted on 05/06/2023 10:19:04 AM PDT by DPMD (ua)
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To: CFW

Tommy the Torch is savoring the future of his business.


6 posted on 05/06/2023 10:19:47 AM PDT by DPMD (ua)
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That was SO predictable.


7 posted on 05/06/2023 10:20:16 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: DPMD

Yes, it’s all going to the bureaucracy.


8 posted on 05/06/2023 10:21:31 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: CFW

When progressives talk about affordable housing look closely at where the money is going and how they are related to those in government.


9 posted on 05/06/2023 10:21:59 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Night Hides Not

The government eats first even when the people are starving.


10 posted on 05/06/2023 10:22:55 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: CFW

Limousine liberals will always find a way out/


11 posted on 05/06/2023 10:23:38 AM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: V_TWIN

$528K? Should be enough to build one public toilet, less the salaries and pensions for the 14 staff the city hired to administer the program.


12 posted on 05/06/2023 10:23:50 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: CFW

Embrace the suck you vile, Demonic Party-enabling libtard dumbasses... keep voting and funding your own demise.


13 posted on 05/06/2023 10:24:34 AM PDT by Common Sense 101
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30%?

Let's see, there is 10% for the not so big guy (Newsom), 5% for Fang Fang's replacement, 50% for various other Democratic pols, 5% for various racial justice organizations, so that's about right. But remember, there are administrative costs as well!

14 posted on 05/06/2023 10:24:44 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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True LOL!. March, 2022 article...

"TITLE: Column: Spending $800,000 for a single unit of homeless housing is a red flag for L.A.

"The average per-unit cost of projects under construction — originally estimated at $375,000 — went from $531,000 in 2020 to just shy of $600,000 last year."

15 posted on 05/06/2023 10:24:57 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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“The way they spend money on the “homeless” this amounts to six people.”

That was my first thought, but, in reality, that will pay the salary of two Los Angeles “homeless coordinators” for a year. The bums won’t see a dime.


16 posted on 05/06/2023 10:25:33 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else…)
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“I’d guess about 30%.....at best.”

The Homeless-Government-Industrial-Woke complex will take 100% of it and nothing will trickle out the bottom to the people who need it.


17 posted on 05/06/2023 10:26:25 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else…)
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To: glorgau

Don’t forget the consultant work.......can’t make a move without the consultant work. 😏


18 posted on 05/06/2023 10:26:45 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

See my post 17


19 posted on 05/06/2023 10:28:14 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

Post 18 not 17


20 posted on 05/06/2023 10:28:49 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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