10-03-2008, 05:54 AM
you are correct hotzcatz, what i meant to say about "locked in" is if you are a homeowner, at that point, your taxes can only go up 3 percent a year. of course once harry leaves office this can go out the door with a new mayor and new council.. of course, the old (pre permit) houses were taxed. i will try again: when and if they do assessments your tax base can change. in years past this was done on "the books" and rarely on visual inspection. so until permits had activity on them, this did not happen.. now in the "new world" alot of inspectors were hired to keep up with the building boom. now there is no boom... so what are these county employees up to? that remains to be seen. my taxes this year went from 50dollars to 75 dollars but it was due to the land not the house. and the increase in the minimum you had to pay... for example some of my land went up to 100 per lot a few years ago when they changed that minimum... it is all really up to the whim of the existing council and many people are worried that with the economic slide, the new government will look to taxes as a way to balance the budget. i may not always be current, things change rapidly and some of the newer people actually have newer facts which is why i frequent the punaweb..ps you spell checkers have at it, my fingers are faster than my brain