Apparently many investors and business owners are just as fired up as I am over these property tax TRIM notices.  Florida Speaker of the House, Marco Rubio, has recently stated that property tax reform will be another big issue for the 2008 legislature. That's great news. I did speak with the office of my representative David Simmons about 2 weeks ago and his position is that we need some sort of super exemption for non-homestead properties as well. 

Governor Charlie Crist sent me a long email about all the great tax savings I will be getting because of this new legislation just enacted.  I responded to him that taxes on most of my properties went up and in fact I am paying about $4000 more this year than last year.  He has yet to respond to that.  He has been traveling the state to promote the proposed super homestead exemption. Unfortunately this really only helps people that want to buy a new property to make their homestead.  It does little if anything to help existing homesteaders and nothing for investors and business owners.  According to some counts about 2/3 of all properties in Florida don't have a homestead exemption.

Hopefully something good will come next year regarding real estate property taxes.  I have still not made up my mind about the proposed Constitutional amendment on the ballot in January, but more and more I think I am going to vote against it.  We all need to stand up and yell loudly to all of our politicians that property taxes have gotten way out of control.  There is plenty of fat to trim in their budgets.