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This is probably more of a vent or possibly a rant but I can't get my head around how high the garden city village taxes are. Generally speaking (not exact) but most of the houses for sale that we have been looking at have village taxes of about 40% of the county taxes!! $15k in county taxes then tack on another $7k in village taxes. I'm guessing most of that is for the police department but I'm still having a hard time wrapping my head around it.
Anyway, thanks for listening. As much as I love GC what will they be in 15yrs?
This is probably more of a vent or possibly a rant but I can't get my head around how high the garden city village taxes are. Generally speaking (not exact) but most of the houses for sale that we have been looking at have village taxes of about 40% of the county taxes!! $15k in county taxes then tack on another $7k in village taxes. I'm guessing most of that is for the police department but I'm still having a hard time wrapping my head around it.
Anyway, thanks for listening. As much as I love GC what will they be in 15yrs?
. As much as I love GC what will they be in 15yrs?
That's why we left. Too scary to contemplate. We had some of the lowest taxes in the village on our house at $12K a year - most people we know pay $17-25K. That's on a normal size house - forget about the mansions. The village has a lot of amenities to offer but eventually you reach the point of diminishing returns. It's certainly not feasible to contemplate retiring there with those taxes.
I'd like to think this can't be right but here's a listing of a home in GC where the county taxes are $13,366 and the village taxes are $8073 !!!! That's 60% of the county taxes. Crazy!!
^^^ Yeah the problem is a lot of houses in town are $20-$30K in taxes.
There was a house on the market earlier this year - the people paid $350K in the 1990s, taxes were a little over $5K - and renovated the house....when the county came and reassessed in 2001 they got hit, and now that house has taxes of $36K a year. I daresay if you paid $350K for a house you are probably going to be unprepared to pay $36K in taxes- that monthly tax payment alone is higher than your original mortgage payment - by quite a bit. It's the same song, just a different town, how high can Levittown's taxes go before people say enough is enough?
G.C. also has private paid police & fire dept. You get what you pay for.
I suppose that's nice but come on now, how many times does the typical homeowner enlist their services? In my 11 years living in Nassau County, not once did I ever call either one of them. The same goes for all my years living in Queens. I think when and if I do need to call them, a non-private version would suffice.
BTW the Fire Dept is almost all volunteer - there are only a few paid members. I have family on the squad, they do not all get paid.
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