meeting about proprty taxes - 1/31/07

[Sally]

Dear SWCC Member,

The Walton County Taxpayers Association (WCTA) will hold its 2007 annual meeting at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 31, 2007. The meeting will be held at the Coastal Branch Library located in the Walton County Government/Education Center, Highway 331 South, Santa Rosa Beach, Florida. You are invited to attend. There will be a short business meeting and a very timely and informative program. Here is a description of the program provided to me by the WCTA.

Our featured guest speaker at the 2007 annual meeting is Walton County Property Appraiser Patrick Pilcher. This is a timely program since appraisals are done each January and homestead exemptions must be filed by March 1.

Residential property which qualifies for homestead exemption enjoys a 3% annual cap on property appraisal increases, as a result of the ?Save Our Homes? amendment approved by Florida voters in 1992.

Property taxes are based on property value; your tax bill is the result of the coordinated efforts of county taxing authorities and officials:

1) Property appraiser determines the market value of property; this value is the taxable value.
2) County commissioners determine tax rate and levy the tax.
3) Tax Collector sends tax notice and collects tax.

We have asked Mr. Pilcher to address some of the questions asked by WCTA members: how often is my property appraised; how is the value of my property determined; will my property appraisal be reduced if surrounding property values decline.

Additionally, Mr. Pilcher will discuss your right to meet with the property appraiser to discuss your concerns and the documentation you will need to support your case; your right to request facts supporting your property assessment; your right to petition the local value adjustment board to review your assessment; and, your right to go to circuit court to review a tax assessment or to appeal a decision to deny tax deferral or exemptions.

The discussion will include when to file a homestead exemption and filing homestead exemptions appropriately.

If time allows, additional questions will be taken at the meeting. Please plan to attend this very informative meeting on January 31.

 

[SHELLY]

Will investors with properties to unload want the properties reapprasied down to save on taxes...OR...opt to keep the appraisals high and continue to pay the higher taxes

 

[Mango]

Will investors with properties to unload want the properties reapprasied down to save on taxes...OR...opt to keep the appraisals high and continue to pay the higher taxes

No silly........word is investors will ask that their property descriptions be changed from residential or NPA/Infill to Brothel/or Distillery and request an increase in sales tax to 9% so that everyone can get a lower assessment.

 

[full time]

"Will investors with properties to unload want the properties reapprasied down to save on taxes...OR...opt to keep the appraisals high and continue to pay the higher taxes"

Very profound. Please tell next how to sign up with Ameritrade.

 

[Bob]

"Will investors with properties to unload want the properties reapprasied down to save on taxes...OR...opt to keep the appraisals high and continue to pay the higher taxes"

Very profound. Please tell next how to sign up with Ameritrade.

Perfect!

 

[TooFarTampa]

Silly SHELLY :roll: The only people who can do anything about it (members of the Legislature, who are being chased by Charlie Crist with a cattle prod) are talking less about lowering assessments and more about capping millage rates and the amount of money governments can spend.

Where has all that money gone, anyway?

 

[SHELLY]

"Will investors with properties to unload want the properties reapprasied down to save on taxes...OR...opt to keep the appraisals high and continue to pay the higher taxes"

Very profound. Please tell next how to sign up with Ameritrade.

Very Profound Indeed:

Business Week Ameritrade Article excerpt (April 2000)

"Though tech stocks -- and for that matter, blue chips -- have taken a beating recently, analysts remain convinced that Ameritrade will come back fighting. After all, the market isn't dead, and individual investors won't stop trading. Moreover, experts think online brokers will continue to gain market share as investors turn to the convenience and lower costs of trading via the Net. "Online investing is so much easier, there's so much information available, and it costs less," says Scott Appleby, an analyst with Robertson Stephens. "That's why it's so successful." And Appleby thinks that in the second quarter, Ameritrade "distanced itself from the pack." "

TOM-a-TOE....ta-MAH-TOE

 

[SHELLY]

The only people who can do anything about it are talking less about lowering assessments and more about capping millage rates and the amount of money governments can spend.

Talkin' and Spendin' are on opposite ends of spectrum.

 

[full time]

Very Profound Indeed:

Business Week Ameritrade Article excerpt (April 2000)

"Though tech stocks -- and for that matter, blue chips -- have taken a beating recently, analysts remain convinced that Ameritrade will come back fighting. After all, the market isn't dead, and individual investors won't stop trading. Moreover, experts think online brokers will continue to gain market share as investors turn to the convenience and lower costs of trading via the Net. "Online investing is so much easier, there's so much information available, and it costs less," says Scott Appleby, an analyst with Robertson Stephens. "That's why it's so successful." And Appleby thinks that in the second quarter, Ameritrade "distanced itself from the pack." "

Real estate and a pancake - bong and Ameritrade? I see there's no pleasing you Shelly. Perhaps you should return to your roots.

www.amway.com/

 

[SHELLY]

Real estate and a pancake - bong and Ameritrade? I see there's no pleasing you Shelly.

Real Estate isn't a "pancake" it's a Souffle':...the director of the University of the Pacific's Business Forecasting Center has referred to the prolonged housing boom as a souffl?. "Like the souffl?, once any ingredient goes away, the souffl? deflates said center director Sean Snaith.