What are you talking about? “Taxes don’t have anything to do with ownership”
Your county sends the person on the deed to the house a tax bill every year. For me, it works out to over $300 per month for a very modest house. If you have a mortgage, it’s bundled into the mortgage payments.
meekah@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, owners pay taxes to fund the government. But paying taxes does not mean you don’t own something, as if you were renting.
phubarr@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Functionally, there’s no difference. The amount they demand is based off your house’s value, and they take it away from you if you don’t pay. The label is just a detail. And it’s not a trivial cost, I inherited a small, aged, worn out house and I pay over $300/mo just to exist in it. The tax office wildly overestimated it’s value and there’s nothing I can do about it.
meekah@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
When you’re renting, you’re always also paying this tax indirectly. Its a tax of having a roof over your head, whether you own it or not*. So it has nothing to do with ownership.
I guess you can argue somewhere in the direction of “tax is theft”, but that’s a different discussion.
phubarr@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s interesting to note that Puerto Rico doesn’t have property tax. When you pay off your home, the tax collector’s office just leaves you alone.