People don’t really ever own their home when they have to pay a large amount per month just for property taxes. Seniors can’t afford to stay in their homes. Property taxes should stop at the age of 65 or possibly 60 years of age to take that financial burden off. No temporary stop, a complete end to property taxes so we end up actually owning our home.
There also should be a cap of 1% for property taxes. The corporations are driving the cost of homes up. This needs to stop.
Property Taxes have nothing to do with the federal government.
Anyway, I would prefer to argue that any property tax exemption you’re talking about should be based on some sort of median home value metric where, below the line, you’re covered, but above, you’re not. Because I’m not exactly going to cry out my eyes for some 70 year old retiree living in a $10M mansion.
At the current rate of inflation we are all going to be living in 20 million dollar double wides. 
But more seriously, local government and the property taxes that support them are out of control.
At the federal level the fastest way to lower taxes is a federal banking ban on escrow accounts. When people actually see and have to pay their tax bills, they will howl for a change.
Property tax should be made illegal for homeowners done paying their mortgage. The county can still have good revenue until the property is fully owned. Property purchased in full without mortgage would have tax due immediately in value equal present value of x years of property tax.
I haven’t had a mortgage for over 30 years. So I like this idea for me. But the bigger problem for everyone is that property tax is out of control. 14 years ago $800 a year - now $6,000 a year for the same property. We have a spending problem at all levels of government. We need to spend less and collect less in taxes.
I agree it has nothing to do with the Feds and I don’t like millionaires getting that benefit. But seniors do receive social security which is feds…maybe somehow increasing the social security to cover property taxes? Just an idea.
Property tax should be abolished full stop. My property tax has gone from $2600 to $9000 in the last 3 1/2 yrs . Since buying the property. My neighbor who lives in identical house with many “improvements “ which I was told property tax is based on pays $3300 so yeah just abolish it please
All property taxes need to be abolished. This includes vehicles. Unless all tax allocation is voted on and theres 100% transparency and quarterly full-scope, publicly available audits, all property and income taxes need to be abolished. Feel free to rebuttle.
No property tax after the mortgage is cleared is a workable idea if you couple it with the prohibition of non-human ownership of homes. Real estate owned by real people turns over all the time - people die, they move, etc.
A deathless corporate entity can own a piece of land for hundreds of years. Disney will own Reedy Creek for literally forever.
FYI you can demand an audit of your property tax liability and force them to explain it.
Asking for an audit just puts a target on you and it just adds to their original statement . It’s all just a scam
The government doesn’t just leave money on the table. Your property tax liability isn’t higher than your neighbor’s because someone “has it out” for you.
It is entirely likely that your neighbor fought the tax hike and won and you did not so you’re paying 3x as much.
How about it’s maximum is based on purchase price?
My neighbor property tax hasn’t changed since they bought the house several yrs ago! Believe me I aggressively fought the hike. I followed every available legal avenue and spent a lot of money just to be told in fact this year we are raising it by another $1500 not $1000 that you were arguing.
My husband passed away from cancer in 2020. He was the second person I lost to cancer within ten years. I can no longer afford the property taxes. I had to move from my home, two hours away to a rural area, away from all of my family and friends with no support system, all because of some greedy county officials. I can’t get any help where I live. It’s very inconvenient and far from any medical facilities. I spent thirty years as an occupational therapist, giving to my patients and this is what I got in return.
Please get this bill passed!!!
So I’ve been paying property taxes for 10 years and I’m not going to be 65 for another 15 years so I’m going to be paying property taxes for a total of 25 years on my own property and property taxes that have been built into rent for 14 years prior to that I’ve also been paying sales taxes in the little town beside me and in the borough I live in I put Roots down and been a part of building the community as well as helping to pay for the fire department through my taxes ensuring that the roads are fairly okay through my taxes and that the schools are in operation through my taxes and you are telling me with all of those years of paying taxes in my area it is okay for someone who turns 65 to buy the home right next to me and be tax-free because they’re 65 and they haven’t contributed to the community that I live in that they live in. No I don’t think so! Property taxes are a local issue you vote on them locally, my taxes are low because we have to vote to increase them however they are there and they pay for the fire department which keeps the homeowners insurance cheaper. If you want to pay less taxes than work in your community to drop your taxes if you want to pay no taxes then work in your community to drop your taxes. If you want to see a system that reduces property taxes then consider saying a person pays property taxes for 25 + years in the area and then they’re exempt from taxes, that way you have a progressive reduction in property taxes. You will also give people an incentive to stay in the area because they’ll only have property taxes for so many years they’ll be more likely to put Roots down and contribute to the community because they intend to stay on it through retirement. But even with that idea you have to work on this locally because it’s local it’s not federal.
Your “median” doesn’t work. The county or city will simply value your home just above the median. Problem solved. That happened to me. Numerous times. We built our own home because we couldn’t afford to pay someone else to do it. We built it large enough for our family of 9, but now that everyone has left home, I cannot afford to move, nor am I physically up to it. My property taxes eat 20% of my annual income. I live off social security. Property tax is depleting my savings, which has to last me the rest of my life. That’s insane! I don’t mind being taxed for police and courts; those are necessary. Nothing else should be assessed in property tax. We don’t own a mansion. Just a house that was big enough for our family.
Property tax is based on a FICTION. The assessor values your home based on what comparable homes around you are selling for. Unless you actually SELL your home for that amount, it’s not WORTH that amount. And it may NOT sell for what the assessor claims it is worth. We sold two homes for well under asking price, which was certainly competitive to begin with.
Are you familiar with the controversy over unrealized capital gains? The government wants to assess a tax on what your capital assets are SAID to be worth each year. This will offset taxes owed when you sell the asset.
Do you realize that property tax is UNREALIZED CAPITAL GAINS PLUS WHAT YOU INVESTED IN THE FIRST PLACE, WHICH WAS ALREADY TAXED, SO YOU ARE SUBJECT TO DOUBLE TAXATION. If you keep your home for 50 years or more, you can end up paying taxes a sizable portion of what you paid for your home in the first place.
Most of us don’t live in mansions. And property tax hurts all of us, not millionaires. They can deal with it. We cannot. Any time you want to soak the rich, the little guy gets hurt worse. That’s just reality.
Not quite true. We appealed several times and cut our bill almost in half. However the law in my state allows them to RAISE your taxes if they think your home is worth more. That is what needs to be made illegal. There should be no penalty for appealing and losing.
Property taxes violate the federal land patent laws. They also are in contradiction to Supreme Court cases that state that if an authority is not asserted at the time of the issuance of a patent, they are forever barred. 8-0 decisions: Summa Corp. v. Cal. State Lands Commission 466 U.S. 198 (1984) Leo Sheep Co. v. United States 440 U.S. 668 (1979). We need for the federal government to enforce their own laws. Land patents award property to the patentee and his heirs and assigns forever. In our state, the government takes your entire HOUSE without compensation of any kind (violation of eminent domain provision in the Constitution) if you don’t pay the tax for a certain number of years. That is highly illegal, but they get away with it, kicking elderly disabled people into the street. It costs far more to provide for the elderly homeless than they’d ever get in property taxes. Makes no sense. I am all for abolishing property tax altogether, and replacing it with excise taxes with exclusions for food, pharmaceuticals and supplements, and used clothing and cars. But in the meantime, we have to stop taking people’s homes. The people who need relief cannot afford to litigate, and no one else cares. At the very least, your HOMESTEAD should be exempt. You should be able to declare your homestead. Abolish public schools, and most of the cost will go away anyway. They’re just indoctrinating children and turning out animals with no morals who follow government tyranny without question and vote for the pretty face. They teach children things that are contrary to what the homeowner believes. Establish a scholarship fund for needy families who cannot homeschool, paid for by 100% tax credit on state income tax. It works beautifully here. It saves the government money. And children who receive scholarships actually get an education.
Where are you proposing the government make up that taxes?