Comment on This boomer couple would be hit with $700,000 tax bill if they sold their mansion

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Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

The unfair part of this is that the $500k threshold for the tax hasnt been updated since 1997.

In 1997 the average price for a house in California was about 180k now its $800k. If the tax was the same ratio it now wouldnt apply until the house was worth about 2.2mil (napkin math, I’m not getting out the calculator) Now I’m not saying they arent crying about a problem many of us would kill to have but thats a difference of about $340,000 in taxes.

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