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Old 09-19-2011, 10:22 AM
 
Location: Pennsylvania
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Old 09-19-2011, 03:08 PM
 
Location: Midwest transplant
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If you own property you pay school taxes (and municipal taxes) and often for trash removal as well. It doesn't matter if you have zero kids or ten kids, if you own property, you pay taxes.

Apartment dwellers/renters/tenants~whatever term you use. You pay your taxes indirectly through your rent to your landlord. Your landlord is paying big time taxes on your property because it is a residence and a business. So even though you aren't writing the check, you are still paying for taxes. You are not the taxpayer but you do pay taxes. It's just semantics.
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Old 09-20-2011, 07:55 PM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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If you own property you pay school taxes (and municipal taxes) and often for trash removal as well. It doesn't matter if you have zero kids or ten kids, if you own property, you pay taxes.

Apartment dwellers/renters/tenants~whatever term you use. You pay your taxes indirectly through your rent to your landlord. Your landlord is paying big time taxes on your property because it is a residence and a business. So even though you aren't writing the check, you are still paying for taxes. You are not the taxpayer but you do pay taxes. It's just semantics.
When we first relocated to PA, we rented our home for a year prior to buying. We paid school taxes separately, separate checks,etc.... It was. Ot included in our rent....
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Old 09-22-2011, 11:21 AM
 
Location: IGO CA
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When we first relocated to PA, we rented our home for a year prior to buying. We paid school taxes separately
That is the arrangement you made with your landlord, that is not typical. Perhaps because it was a rent to/own situation.

Property and school taxes can vary greatly across the state. I live in NEPA and pay under $2,000 annually for property/school taxes on my 52 acre farm, plus 2 - $10 assessments x 2 (husband & myself) annually. (Oh and I DID get a rebate on my property tax due to the casinos.)

I went to school for 12 years in this state, my children just a few, as we lived in North Carolina for a good portion of their school years. Can't say I begrudge paying school tax ... I generally prefer seeing all children getting educated ... mine or not. Uneducated youth are not a good plan for the future.

As for the new large schools in Stroudsburg, might be a result of all the NJ/NY implants that moved to that area.
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Old 02-13-2012, 01:42 PM
 
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Yes all Real Estate pays taxes. No truth you will get a reduction in taxes if you have kids in school! I have no kids in school(all adults) .

I am in Carbon County and my home is assessed at $152,000- Real estate is taxed on 50% of the assessed value so I am taxed on $76,000 of value of my home. I now pay $6,000 in taxes. $4,300 is just the School Districts alone! Yes they built a new school before the Casino Money was set up.
The casino money by the way is a JOKE! They gave us $250 dollars of our assessed value.
We just got a letter from our Country Represenative informing us Rendel put all the Casino money into the General Fund and not into the Real Estate Tax fund for the people!

So now the Politicians are taking te promised gaming Money that was suppose to help tax payer with their Real Estate taxes and using it for economic development- roads and other things!

We were swindled again !
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Old 12-07-2015, 02:21 PM
 
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My son and his wife live with us with their daughter, our granddaughter, they do not pay rent but help with the cable and electric bill. Why would they get a school tax bill?
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Old 02-25-2016, 08:48 AM
 
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Does a disabled veteran pay school taxes or even have to file tax returns?
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Old 02-25-2016, 10:34 AM
 
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That's not true.

Anyone who owns property pays school tax.

Renters actually pay taxes through their rent payments because their landlords pay the school taxes with that money.
This isn't accurate. I have no kids at all yet I still pay school taxes. Everyone pays school taxes. However depending where you live is how you pay. I was born and raised in Philly and all taxes were taken out of my paychecks and distributed accordingly. When I moved to central PA and rented for a year I got a school tax statement in the mail from the school district and was responsible for paying it. Now that I own a home it gets sent to the mortgage company which comes out of escrow.
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Old 02-25-2016, 02:11 PM
 
Location: On the Chesapeake
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This isn't accurate. I have no kids at all yet I still pay school taxes. Everyone pays school taxes. However depending where you live is how you pay. I was born and raised in Philly and all taxes were taken out of my paychecks and distributed accordingly. When I moved to central PA and rented for a year I got a school tax statement in the mail from the school district and was responsible for paying it. Now that I own a home it gets sent to the mortgage company which comes out of escrow.

Was that a property tax bill or a local income tax bill? They would be different.


Did you have something in your lease making you directly responsible for the property tax bill? If so, you sort of got screwed since property taxes go with the property and the owner for deductions.
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Old 02-25-2016, 04:36 PM
 
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Was that a property tax bill or a local income tax bill? They would be different.


Did you have something in your lease making you directly responsible for the property tax bill? If so, you sort of got screwed since property taxes go with the property and the owner for deductions.
Local income tax is what you pay to township/borough you live in and work in. That gets taken out of every pay check. Per capita gets mailed out to the individual as well where they offer a "rebate" for paying it early. School taxes get sent to you no matter where you live, how you live (rent or own) and no matter how long you lived there. If you own a house more likely part of your mortgage payment goes to escrow which your mortgage company uses to pay school taxes.Which is why the payments get adjusted after every year. If there is surplus (ha!) they send you a rebate check, but if there is a shortage (always is) then your payments go up. As a matter of fact I just sent my statement to my mortgage company, because PA out of all 50 states has the most screwed up (501 of them) school districts.

I've encountered plenty of stories from people that have lived somewhere temporarily but still get the full tax bill because of the address they use. The amount varies based on the school district. I most expensive I've heard of is Hershey. That's why some people wait until June/July to move because it depends on the school district you move to or from.

When Rendell was governor one of the things he wanted to do was get eliminate the local tax collectors because of all the inaccuracies that were happening and people (especially if they didn't own property) wouldn't always pay them. If you have a house they can put a lien on it. But if you rent, move around a lot, or live with someone there isn't as much recourse for collecting payment except wage garnishment if they can find you.

I personally went through this myself. When I bought my house I had already paid the school tax in the previous township I lived in where I was renting. But the township I moved to kept sending me the bill (with penalties) saying that I had to pay them for taxes for a period when I didn't even live in the township. Longer story short, after over a year and half and lots of phone calls and letters I ultimately had the tax collector (who my neighbors swore was the sweetest lady) come to my house and even she didn't understand how the mix up happened. In the end she ended up taking care of it.

Oh yeah my neighbors who thought the tax collector was the sweetest lady, it happened to him a few years later.
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