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I'm thinking about add a 8'x15' shed. Town of Oyster Bay demands construction permit for sheds larger than 100 sq ft. Will this installation increase the tax? If yes, to how much could it be?
You do have to pay tax and they will make you even if you dont have much money and you get paid not much and its not fare. But why do they make you do it for a shed and why do you need it if it mostly on farms and you do live in ling island?
I'm thinking about add a 8'x15' shed. Town of Oyster Bay demands construction permit for sheds larger than 100 sq ft. Will this installation increase the tax? If yes, to how much could it be?
Anytime you ADD anything to the property and you apply for a permit, the permit is the way they know how MUCH value you are adding, you will be taxed on the added value.
Guaranteed that when you finish the shed, at some point they will send someone around to measure and check it and that will be added along with usually a photo to your property report on the county assessors web site.
You can pretty much expect the increase to appear on the next future tax bill.
The best trick is to find out how large you can go without a permit, here in Iowa you can build a shed up to a certain size w/o a permit, once you go past a certain size you need a permit and it needs a concrete slab under it.
I built two small sheds a few years ago JUST a hair under the max no-permit size and they don't even appear on my property tax report at all.
You do have to pay tax and they will make you even if you dont have much money and you get paid not much and its not fare
Of course, and even if you think you "own" your house you never actually do, because fall behind one tax payment due to unemployment, accident, cancer, whatever they don't care- the county starts seizure proceedings and unless the tax and penalty is paid up immediately, YOUR house gets sold at one of the county public auctions.
My house built in 1930 had that happen to the widow around 1941 when she was 68, she couldn't keep up and the house on the 32 acres was seized and sold at a sheriff's auction for the amount due, the sheriff came to evict her and her 16 year old grand daughter, the buyer turned around less than a month later and sold it to a couple at a HUGE profit.
A 2 story older house near me recently sold at one of these auctions for the tax due on it- a couple hundred dollars, so unless the owners walked away from it and abandoned it, the county seized the house and sold it for a lousy couple hundred bucks for the tax due. It was assessed something around $20,000, right on Main street and looked to be in move-in condition and this town is NOT any kind of run down dump either!
Look into one of those giant plastic Rubbermaid type sheds. Those don't count as a permanent structure and can be quite large. I also live in the Town of Oyster Bay and have seen quite a few of these going up over the past few years. I would imagine it's to avoid the permit fees and taxes.
Look into one of those giant plastic Rubbermaid type sheds. Those don't count as a permanent structure and can be quite large. I also live in the Town of Oyster Bay and have seen quite a few of these going up over the past few years. I would imagine it's to avoid the permit fees and taxes.
You can bet the county will catch up on that apparent loophole.
You can bet the county will catch up on that apparent loophole.
You would think so, but it isn't likely. They have known about this "loophole" for many years and intentionally allow it. It basically comes down to size. Most of the time those portable sheds are under the size needed for a permit. When they aren't... I guess they are easy enough to take down and then put back up. Grey area, but hard to call them a "permanent" structure.
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Originally Posted by mowmylawn
In Suffolk, any shed 8x10 or smaller does not need a building permit.
This is not accurate. Suffolk doesn't set the rules or issue the permits. That is done at the town level.
Different towns have different rules. Brookhaven and Islip, as two examples, don't require a permit for sheds up to 144sqft. Town of Huntington requires a permit for sheds in excess of 100 sqft. Huntington also requires a permit for a second shed of any size - so that 8x10 would need a permit if it was the second shed on a property.
Even worse - Smithtown requires a permit for sheds over 50sq ft. However, they claim only _wood_ sheds over 50sqft will be assessed. For other construction materials, over 144sq ft is assessed.
Always check your town codes to be sure.
Last edited by Joe461; 08-24-2017 at 03:42 PM..
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