Taxes in Shawnee and Lenexa... (Overland, Jackson: sales, real estate, house)

[sparksharp]

Is it just me or are the taxes higher in Shawnee and Lenexa as oppossed to Overland Park or Leawood?

[Samantha S]

Originally Posted by sparksharp

Is it just me or are the taxes higher in Shawnee and Lenexa as oppossed to Overland Park or Leawood?

Which ones?

Property taxes can be higher if it's an area with schools still being paid for, lower in older more established areas. I don't think there's a noticeable difference in sales tax.

[Versatile]

I have no idea. When i lived in OP i voted for every tax there was! lol

[Mathguy]

Originally Posted by sparksharp

Is it just me or are the taxes higher in Shawnee and Lenexa as oppossed to Overland Park or Leawood?

Depends what parts I would think.

I live in a Lenexa neighborhood that is about 25 years old. My property taxes are <3500 a year on a house that is worth about 275k or so. They actually went down since my last assessment went down about 20k or so.

Even within towns like OP they might vary the actual taxes by putting higher assessed values in the new places down south than on the older neighborhoods.

Personally I wouldn't think they would vary that much...except where they've had enormous growth like Olathe.

[Okey Dokie]

Look up taxes on any residence in Johnson County here:

Appraiser's Office - DISCLAIMER PAGE

[sparksharp]

Originally Posted by Okey Dokie

Look up taxes on any residence in Johnson County here:

Appraiser's Office - DISCLAIMER PAGE

Yeah...that's a handy little website! I stumbled onto that last night while surfing.

[RjRobb2]

Property taxes are higher for the most part in all areas of JoCo compared to other parts of the metro. It's one of the main reasons why I would not move over there.

[luzianne]

Originally Posted by RjRobb2

Property taxes are higher for the most part in all areas of JoCo compared to other parts of the metro. It's one of the main reasons why I would not move over there.

Actually, I think Wyandotte County taxes are higher than Johnson County because of all the development out by Kansas Speedway. That's what some people who live out there were telling me.

Taxes are probably higher in Johnson County, but I like the fact that when there is snow and ice, the roads get cleaned. Having lived in Johnson County and worked in Missouri at one time, I know for a fact that Jackson County does not clean their streets like Johnson County does, because I would leave for work and have clear streets, even when it had snowed overnight, until I hit State Line and then the roads were packed with snow and ice. I also don't fall into potholes driving down the street in Johnson County. And the street cleaner comes down my street on a regular basis and sweeps the street. I also don't see trash on the sides of the roads. And the schools are excellent. For those reasons, I don't mind paying a little more in taxes.

[OneKC]

Originally Posted by luzianne

Actually, I think Wyandotte County taxes are higher than Johnson County because of all the development out by Kansas Speedway. That's what some people who live out there were telling me.

WyCo has the highest property tax in the metro, but its not because of the Speedway. I thought it was because they have both sprawl and an urban core, and a poorer population with lots of blight. They have had high property taxes long before the Speedway. In fact, I think the Speedway was considered to be a way of alleviating the high property tax (I think recently they did cut property taxes quite a bit)

kcmo posted a chart on taxes around the metro and its pretty much a wash. You'll pay a bit more in property tax in JoCo, you'll pay the e-tax in KCMO. Sales taxes around the metro are all pretty close to each other.

I do seem to recall reading that Overland Park had the lowest property tax in the metro.

[TinaMcG]

Originally Posted by sparksharp

Yeah...that's a handy little website! I stumbled onto that last night while surfing.

It sure is a handy website. I just wish our real estate agent had bothered to use it when we were buying our house. The MLS sheet quoted one tax number, the title company another -- $2500 higher. I repeatedly asked our agent to check on the taxes because they were a big factor in our decision, and we might have backed out of the deal if she had bothered to take two minutes and check. We still lived in Chicago and had no idea the info was so readily available online. So one month later, after several requests for the information, she finally got back to us, and sure enough, the higher amount was accurate. That's $200 a month more than we had planned to pay. By then, it was too late to back out. We were closing on the sale a few days later.

Ugh, don't get me started on dealing with that real estate company. That was a nightmare experience on so many levels.