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Re:If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pens... by shiftpgdn on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @12:56PM (#27450233)
Many counties in Texas have solved this by setting a 10% maximum year over year increase in property/land tax for people LIVING in their homes. There are also locks and exemptions carved out for those over 65 and disabled veterans.
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Re:If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pens... by krferriter on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @04:22PM (#27452685)
Yeah there should be exemptions (i.e. standard deductions) to help low-income people (retirees with low savings, such as those dependent on social security or disabled, etc) and for people's primary residence.

What we don't want is a 50 year old who fully owns a $2 mil house and has $15 mil in the stock market and $1 mil in cash to be exempted from most property tax, but a 30 year old with $200k total assets to be on the hook for the full property tax rate. That doesn't make sense.

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