I haven't watched the video, but paying off implies owning a title to the land which means paying taxes on it.

The topic of how he got or paid for the land actually doesn't come up in the video.

I found the whole thing pretty fascinating though, also in terms of what he believes about us here in Europe (we're not free anymore) or that USA government is moving towards making the Bible illegal, yet also having a lot of beliefs and knowledge that I consider exceptionally good, like not eating meat or animal products. I don't manage the latter myself but it would be the right thing to do and he just does it. Oh, and that his biggest mentioned expense is 90 dollars every month for a landline phone. Holy crap, for that you get 10 gigabit symmetrical around here if you're on the right fiber network, or otherwise the fastest Internet+phone+TV they can offer! Amazing he can make enough money raising horses to pay that bill every month on top of a few smaller expenses like dog food (it totaled up to 140/month, though I expect there's some forgotten/irregular costs). Who else has >50% of their living expenses be a phone contract!

> The topic of how he got or paid for the land actually doesn't come up in the video.

It does get mentioned. He loaned the money from his father and he's repaying it back slowly.

Oh! I missed that. Weird because I did watch the whole thing actually, didn't expect to when starting

I also didn't watch it, but I have forty acres and a home and all that, and my yearly taxes are like $300 (different state from the video).

I think that qualifies for "quite close to 0"

(I don't aim for zero, although I do live very cheaply compared to the US average)

Close enough to zero indeed. I had not imagined it could be that low, I spent my entire life in towns and cities (and not in the US).

Yeah, he does, that gets mentioned in the video.