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Unread 09-19-2011, 10:22 AM
 
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Unread 09-19-2011, 03:08 PM
 
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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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Unread 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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Unread 09-22-2011, 11:21 AM
 
Location: Endless Mtns NE PA
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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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Unread 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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