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Thats literally how you die. Keep to yourself and MYOB.
Yep. Absent something posing a threat to me, I'm not getting involved. What the neighbor is doing is wrong, but I'm not getting involved. Don't want to deal with any drama.
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hot debate in my circle of friends: would you report someone you knew was wrongly claiming a homestead property tax exemption? The property tax savings is significant.
You may not have the entire, or real story, ...
Unless you are willing to personally confront the offender...
I would let karma work it out, as disclosing something you might be lacking the information to keep you out of jail, lawsuit, or it the end of the barrel of a shotgun.
Better safe than sorry these days.
2 retired LEO neighbors got into a duel over a trivial thing.
One is dead, the other in prison.
Yep. Absent something posing a threat to me, I'm not getting involved. What the neighbor is doing is wrong, but I'm not getting involved. Don't want to deal with any drama.
Yeah remember OP.. you risk losing ALL of your friends for this. If someone in my friend group reports someone for this or if I find out, I would cut all ties with you.
Homestead issue turns into reporting a 12 year old for using Facebook which turns into back stabbing other people etc etc. Nah.
Like seriously you never learned to MYOB? Its 2021.
I cant wrap my head around this. You want to report your friend because he lowered his tax bill? Envious it sounds like.
Yeah remember OP.. you risk losing ALL of your friends for this. If someone in my friend group reports someone for this or if I find out, I would cut all ties with you.
Homestead issue turns into reporting a 12 year old for using Facebook which turns into back stabbing other people etc etc. Nah.
Like seriously you never learned to MYOB? Its 2021.
I cant wrap my head around this. You want to report your friend because he lowered his tax bill? Envious it sounds like.
See something , say something.
IF you turn a blind eye, then you are in essence are an accessory to the crime.
MYOB is what creates the falsehood that Crimes pays.
I'm of the habit of having 100% certainty BEFORE I make a call on the matter.
I'd be pleased if a Friend did cut off ties after I reported them, I tend not to hang with such persons. White collar or blue collar crime. Doesn't make a difference.
IF you turn a blind eye, then you are in essence are an accessory to the crime.
MYOB is what creates the falsehood that Crimes pays.
I'm of the habit of having 100% certainty BEFORE I make a call on the matter.
I'd be pleased if a Friend did cut off ties after I reported them, I tend not to hang with such persons. White collar or blue collar crime. Doesn't make a difference.
Respectfully, I disagree. People have no obligation to report someone and aren't to blame for others' misdeeds.
If I see a crime that is injurious to someone's physical well-being (or threatens my own), I'll take appropriate actions, even if that's only making an anonymous complaint.
I'm curious if your efforts to get involved include reporting a neighbor that you observe going five miles over the speed limit (or 10 or 15 mph over the limit)?
Or if you choose to call the police when you see a neighbor jaywalking contrary to the law?
Or if someone flies the flag contrary to the flag code?
Curious to hear your responses to this, but ultimately in my experience things are rarely black and white for people on this topic.
IF you turn a blind eye, then you are in essence are an accessory to the crime.
MYOB is what creates the falsehood that Crimes pays.
I'm of the habit of having 100% certainty BEFORE I make a call on the matter.
I'd be pleased if a Friend did cut off ties after I reported them, I tend not to hang with such persons. White collar or blue collar crime. Doesn't make a difference.
See something say something is the equivalent of make my ego bigger but do nothing to help the situation. Just throw it off on someone else.
You probably are scamming the system one way or another whether you know it or not…
In most situations where a homestead is being incorrectly claimed it's relatively easy to tell. A couple examples:
House is empty much of the year and when the owners are there the cars have out of state license plates.
House is visibly a rental. This is especially apparent if a jurisdiction has licensing requirements for rentals.
Maryland had a mass "register your house correctly" period several years ago. Just one County, Montgomery, discovered that it had more than 80,000 house incorrectly labeled as "Owner Occupied" with the owners claiming a Homestead exemption.
In Maryland that's important. Owner Occupied houses come under the state's Homestead Exemption which limits property tax increases to no more than 10% a year (some Counties and Municipalities are less under a local option) while rentals/investment properties are liable for the full cycled in assessment, therefore property tax, increase applied over three years.
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