Re:Tech workers are increasingly looking to leave Silicon Va...
by prostoalex on Monday February 29, 2016 @08:12PM
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Is your primary goal here to extract more revenue from timeshare owners and people who own a pied-à-terre? Don't those constitute negligible portion of California real estate market (as opposed to some places like Hawaii, where absentee ownership is significant and property taxes on timeshare / second home owners are very high)?
While it's probably not a bad idea, I don't see it moving the needle much.
Re:Tech workers are increasingly looking to leave Silicon Va...
by dragonwriter on Monday February 29, 2016 @08:16PM
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> Is your primary goal here to extract more revenue from timeshare owners and people who own a pied-à-terre?
I'm discussing ways to achieve the goal upthread of insulating people from property tax uncertainty on their primary residence.
I would expect that the larger purpose of that is to allow full-value taxation on all other real property; of which non-primary-residence residential property is a subset (and a fairly small subset, at that.)
Remember that Prop 13 applies to all real property, not just residential property.
So, treat primary residences as primary residences, whether or not they are the primary residence of the property owner. For multi-unit rental properties, the total value of the property is divided among units proportionately to the rent charged for each unit to assess this.