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Real estate needs a ceiling on taxes
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Aug. 23, 2010 12:43 am
Aug. 10, in the mail, I received my new tax assessment bill for this year.
I'm wondering, as at some future time that I may want to sell my property, will the prospective buyers deem my property taxes too high and not want my property? Not that this is any concern of the so-called assessor's.
And if I think this new tax increase is too much and refuse to pay it, in the twinkling of an eye, my property will no longer be mine.
Real estate should have a ceiling at how much it can be taxed. You cannot continue to increase taxes every year without damaging the value and salability, or are we too overeducated to know that?
Gary L. Roberts
Center Point
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