No Property Tax 
Fixed it for you
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Yes, certain civilians may qualify for full or partial property tax exemptions, often based on factors such as age, income, disability, and specific occupations. Here are some common ways civilians might qualify:
1. Senior Citizens: Many states offer property tax reductions or exemptions for seniors over a certain age, often 65 or older. Income and residency requirements may apply.
2. Low-Income Residents: Some jurisdictions provide property tax relief to homeowners with limited income, allowing partial or full exemption based on specific income thresholds.
3. Disabled Individuals: Civilians with disabilities may qualify for property tax reductions or exemptions. This can apply to people who are legally blind or have other qualifying disabilities, depending on state criteria.
4. Homeowners in Specific Occupations: First responders (like firefighters or police officers), especially those injured in the line of duty, sometimes qualify for property tax exemptions.
5. Homestead Exemptions: Some states have “homestead exemptions” that reduce the taxable value of primary residences. These exemptions are not always full exemptions but can significantly lower the tax burden.
6. Historic or Agricultural Properties: Certain states provide tax relief for owners of historical landmarks or agricultural land to promote preservation or support farming.
Eligibility and exemption amounts vary widely by location, so it’s best for civilians to check with local tax authorities to see what property tax relief options might apply to them.
Up until 1923 there were no taxes in USA and guess what there were police fire schools all the things you have now, check it out it’s called history. Most the money you pay in taxes pays for the political lifestyle of your so called representatives
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I do know about such provisions. That said, property tax needs to end for everyone. It is unconstitutional and a violation of federal land patent laws, which provide land to the patentee and his heirs and assigns forever. The Supreme Court already ruled in two cases that if an authority is not granted to a government in the patent itself at the time it is awarded, the authority does not exist. Summa Corp. v. California and Leo Sheep Company v. US. There is no authority in my land patent or anyone else’s to tax the land and improvements. It is supposed to grant allodial title. A land patent is a federal law, passed by Congress and signed by the President.
We tried to have a referendum which would exempt senior citizens completely, but we had no money to pay for people to gather signatures. We fell just short of enough to get the item on the ballot. The legislature passed a watered down law that provides for some reductions. They put in property value limits. The county always makes sure my property is valued just above the limit so I di not qualify. There is always a way. I pay 15% of my social security income in property taxes. I have no mortgage. Property tax is eating up my savings. My savings has to last me the rest of my life.
It will be far more expensive for them to care for me if they take my property. It makes no sense. It is past time to end property tax for good, or at least for people who are “land poor”, who do not get the income needed. It is not based on ability to pay. It is just plain wrong and always has been.
In this forum, I am asking the incoming President to start enforcing the land patent laws. Property taxes can and should be replaced with excise taxes. This means sales taxes on non-necessities, i.e. a luxury tax. Exemptions for food, supplements and pharmaceuticals, and used cars and clothing. The material that makes a home is subject to sales tax. That is enough.
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There are some things the government should not be doing. Like public “schools”. Education is none of the government’s business. Prior to public schools, there was a 98% literacy rate in the US. Philanthropists provided scholarships for children who needed them. Most learned to read at home from the King James Bible. Learning to read is the key to all other learning. A person who can read can learn anything else he needs to know. Government doesn’t need to provide electricity, water, sewer, trash pickup, or fire departments. All this can be done privately. We had a private fire department, and people subscribed. The cost annually was around $70. If you didn’t subscribe and had a fire, you had to pay the full cost of fighting it. They held an election to decide if the government should take over the fire department. We were not notified. It passed. My annual cost is now $700. This is true across the board. The government should only be providing police, courts, and roads. Roads should be paid for by gas taxes. Police and courts can easily be paid for by a small increase in sales taxes.
That doesn’t counter my argument at all. Me and the OP are not talking about going back to a previous iteration of the tax code, funding anything, etc.
The discussion is about who pays property taxes, not what should be the government’s responsibilities.
The government’s responsibilities are an integral part of this question, because it is the fact government does things it has no business doing that provides the pressure to keep taxing property in the first place, especially against those who cannot pay, which results in government taking property and violating the Constitution and giving it to a rich banker without him having to pay for it. We won’t have real reform of property tax until the government gets its mitts out of areas that don’t concern it. I have the ability to speak out about this, and I am going to do so. And another thing: people are being taxed to support a system that teaches vulnerable children things to which they are diametrically opposed. And some of these things are religious in nature, another violation. And yet, if we do not fund these things, we lose what we worked for. In my state, it would mean being tossed out into the street with nothing.
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Yes. Taxes stay the same as purchase price. Once house is sold, new owner pays increased tax amount.
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Along with Property tax being an issue. We called our Home Owner Insurance company. We said we were being over insured. We wanted to cobwr our Mortgage balance plus 100K.
Ins company told us “That isn’t how it works. We tell you how much coverage you have to have.”
My husband replied “But Im the Customer, I should be tell you what I want.” “This will save u money and if you have to pay out, it saves you money.”
Ins company “No, it does not work that way.”
The next year our premium increase $277 per month.
Our basic mortage payment is still $1200. We pay $2,080 to the Mtg company to cover Homeowners Insurance and Property taxes. We are on a fixed income, that $277 increase was our grocery budget. This, for us is a bigger issue than Mortgage rates. Besides, if the ins premium wasn’t so high, we could be paying down the mortgage interest much faster and own the Deed to our house.
Yes Property Taxes for Seniors needs to be abolished
So someone who is 65 years or older can move to any place in the country never have put a dime into that community and be tax-free I don’t think so.
I’ve been paying property taxes in my community for 10 years and by the time I’m 65 I will have paid them for 25 years my taxes have went to the roads and the fire department the ambulance service in the hospital I have roots in the community I am invested in the community. I would be okay with saying no property taxes at all, I would be okay with saying 10 or 25 years of property taxes and then they’re gone. But I am not okay with a 65-year-or older who’s going to have long-term care needs and hospital needs coming in and leaching off a community they’ve never put anything into.