property tax in florida: Florida Property Tax Update - The Compromise is Near!! - 05/11/07 09:46 PM
After some interesting phone calls from people wanting to know more and learn my opinion about what's going on in Florida Taxes, and some people who didn't get what I was saying, here's some more breaking News from the SunSentinel.com regarding the Florida Property Tax:
House Speaker unveils new approach to property tax relief that could halve bill
This afternoon Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio R-Miami announced that there was a compromise on the table during a special joint session of the Florida House and Senate including the attendance of Governor Charlie Crist.
Mr. Rubio outlined his plan in an Op-Ed piece published in today's … (12 comments)
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property tax in florida: Florida Property Tax Update - How the Retiree Community may get helped and hurt - 04/21/07 11:53 AM
Florida has long had a reputation for Shuffleboard and the Early Bird Special to contrast the month of March when the state is riddled with High School and College Co-ed Debauchery, namely Spring Break.
The State has grown up a lot in the past 50 odd years though... and growing pains have left us where we are now - in the middle of a huge tax dilemma.
One demographic that has been brought to the forefront of this debate is that retirement community that the State may be neglecting in their planning as thus far nothing in the news has touched on how … (8 comments)
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property tax in florida: Florida Property Tax Update - HOUSE BILL REJECTED! - 04/20/07 11:07 AM
Breaking News from the SunSentinel.com regarding the Florida Property Tax: This didn't take long at all. Instead of waiting until this morning to make a resolution on the Florida House's property tax reform bills, the Senate rejected them all yesterday morning as their first order of business!
I guess the State Senate read my post yesterday about how I felt the House did not understand the "Time is of the Essense" clause of Real Estate!
The Florida State Senate has decided that perhaps the House plan is a little too radical and offsets the property tax with too high a state sales tax.
So the Senate's bill would work … (3 comments)
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property tax in florida: Florida Property Tax Update - Several New Ideas! - 03/09/07 11:27 AM
The news yesterday and today shows the heat is rising in the debate over how to "fix" Florida's property tax problems.
In short, the middle class is being choked out of Florida property. The reason is because there is no state income tax so there is a higher property tax. The Middle class is the upwardly mobile group that is upgrading from starter homes at 3bedrooms 2bathrooms to the family home at 5bedrooms 3 bathrooms... That jump in property NEEDS creates a new price point at which they can be taxed.
The method I've become comfortable with using to calculate property tax on … (6 comments)
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