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SAVE OUR HOMES! - Florida Tax Reform
At a recent Marketing Meeting at the Tallahassee Board of Realtors, a presentation was presented by a FAR representative regarding the Florida Tax Reform. This amendment will be voted upon by the residents of Florida in the State wide election on 29 January 2008. Attached is that presentation for your use (Thanks to Don Pickett for passing this along).
The problem...
People are locked in their homesA special election to get reform sooner rather than laterWe did not support a simple doubling of the Homestead ExemptionHuge problems with highest and best useTaxes should have been rolled back for significant SavingsHigh Expectations!
The Governor kept saying property taxes would "drop like a rock."The House Speaker floated the idea of increasing sales tax to buy-out propertytaxes on Homestead property.We deserve to have high expectations from our elected officials because total property tax levies have increased by 99% between Fiscal Years 2000 and 2007
We didn't get to where we are overnight!
The property tax system evolved and in most cases there were good intentions
Save Our Homes
Few in this room probably supported Save Our Homes at the time it passed in 1992, but it had what voters believed was a valid purpose at the time.Save Our Homes created huge ... more

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