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Old 05-14-2013, 09:14 AM
 
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I sure hope this bill is DOA. While I'm no fan of taxes, this proposal is ridiculous Burgess proposes lower 2015 tax bills for 20,000 homeowners bitten by reassessment - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Old 05-14-2013, 09:32 AM
 
Location: O'Hara Twp.
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I sure hope this bill is DOA. While I'm no fan of taxes, this proposal is ridiculous Burgess proposes lower 2015 tax bills for 20,000 homeowners bitten by reassessment - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
I am against it as well. Realistically, people that have been in their homes for over 10 years are already underassessed. When a home changes hands is really the only time the county gets their numbers right. Otherwise it seems as if the assessed value is really off if there hasn't been a sale in some time. I would be okay if anyone over the age of 80 or 85 gets a break. That way we are really only targeting people that are too old to work.

FYI - I spoke to someone in the city and he said that the city and PPS were at his tax appeal. His assessment tripled. However, he said that it ended up settling pretty close to FMV.
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Old 05-14-2013, 09:57 AM
 
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Yea, arbitrarily rolling someone's tax back to pre-assessment levels purely because they've lived in their house for 5 or 10 years thats increased its value significantly is not a good policy.

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Old 05-14-2013, 10:48 AM
 
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I don't understand the purpose of this bill either, but they're welcome to lower my taxes if they want.
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Old 05-14-2013, 11:13 AM
 
Location: Virginia
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Seems like a strange way to entice new residents, since they're the ones who'd inevitably be picking up the tab.
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Old 05-14-2013, 11:19 AM
 
Location: O'Hara Twp.
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Seems like a strange way to entice new residents, since they're the ones who'd inevitably be picking up the tab.
This has always been the case. You buy a house and before too long the school district is in court trying to raise your assessment to your purchase price. Can be a big shock to the uninformed.
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Old 05-14-2013, 01:21 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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Yeah, I don't think this is a good bill either. For one thing, is this a true statement -- "The councilman said the state always intended RAD funds, generated by sales tax, to be used for tax relief"?

Read more: Burgess proposes lower 2015 tax bills for 20,000 homeowners bitten by reassessment - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

I thought RAD funds were for things like the museums, libraries, parks and other regional assets. (Doesn't RAD stand for REGIONAL ASSET DISTRICT?) Funding for things that we can all use and add to the quality of life around here. But according to Burgess, we're all supposed to pay an extra 1% in sales taxes to provide tax relief to certain homeowners? Regardless of whether they truly need it or not? I didn't see any needs analysis as part of this, and maybe it's just a poorly written article but I couldn't find anything else with more detail. So in an extreme case -- someone in Squirrel Hill who bought a house in 1990 for (pulling numbers out of my butt) $50,000 and it is now assessed and they could sell it for $300,000 could get tax relief even if they make $500,000 a year? And everyone in Allegheny County would spend an extra 1% on their taxable purchases to make that happen? It just seems to be an arbitrary way to determine tax relief and bad bill to me, but maybe it's not being explained properly.
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Old 05-14-2013, 03:22 PM
 
Location: The canyon (with my pistols and knife)
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First of all, nativism sucks a big one. It sends a message to newcomers that they're not welcome, or that they're second-class citizens. After a dangerous deficiency of new blood and new ideas in the region during the last three decades of the 20th Century, a bill like this is sure to kill the trickle of new blood and ideas that has developed in the last 10 years.

Second of all, why not make a bill to lower taxes for all residents? Favoritism in the tax code not only ****s up the tax structure, but it also spawns all the worthless "wedge" issues that have somehow taken priority in 21st-Century American politics.
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Old 05-15-2013, 04:49 AM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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For what it's worth Burgess is my least favorite councilman for pulling stunts just like this.
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Old 05-15-2013, 05:03 AM
 
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This hurts young people the most: not only will they be paying higher tax rates, the difference will widen over time. It will make moving to the suburbs more attractive for the young.
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