July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Suggestions to lower our property tax (01/10/06)
Letter to the editor
To the editor:
Ten ways to cut residential property taxes in Indiana:
1. Mandatory 36-7-4-1300 IMPACT FEES on NEW CONSTRUCTION. Pay the fee in the mortgage over 15 to 30 years.
2. Mandatory SALES TAX on NEW CONSTRUCTION. Central Indiana is the No. 1 most affordable housing market in the USA. Increase building permit fees.
3. Use ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCOME TAXES (EDIT) to offset residential property taxes. Growth and corporate welfare in Hendricks County have caused residential property taxes to increase a total of 350 percent.
4. Elimination of TAX ABATEMENTS for retail and warehouses paying low wages whose employees do not provide sufficient taxes for government services but do require taxpayer paid Medicaid, rent subsidies, energy assistance, food stamps and illegal alien law enforcement.
5. Elimination of TAX INCREMENT FINANCING (TIF) and SALES TAX INCREMENT FINANCING (STIF) that deprive schools, police & fire, road & bridge repair, water & sewer upgrades, libraries and other essential government services from needed tax revenue.
6. Elimination of TIF RECOVERY on the residential property tax bills that pay for business tax cuts.
7. Elimination of ALL CORPORATE WELFARE such as TAX CREDITS, TAX GRANTS, TRAINING GRANTS and ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCOME TAXES (EDIT) on family income.
8. STOP business taxes from being SHIFTED to residential property taxpayers and to low & middle class income taxpayers.
9. Say NO to NEW, high density, cheap, vinyl housing.
A $250,000 home is required to pay property taxes for essential government services.
10. Read the “Great American Jobs Scam, Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation” book by Greg LeRoy available at the Indiana government library in Indianapolis or your local library.
Sincerely,
Brent Pittman
Brownsburg[[In-content Ad]]
Ten ways to cut residential property taxes in Indiana:
1. Mandatory 36-7-4-1300 IMPACT FEES on NEW CONSTRUCTION. Pay the fee in the mortgage over 15 to 30 years.
2. Mandatory SALES TAX on NEW CONSTRUCTION. Central Indiana is the No. 1 most affordable housing market in the USA. Increase building permit fees.
3. Use ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCOME TAXES (EDIT) to offset residential property taxes. Growth and corporate welfare in Hendricks County have caused residential property taxes to increase a total of 350 percent.
4. Elimination of TAX ABATEMENTS for retail and warehouses paying low wages whose employees do not provide sufficient taxes for government services but do require taxpayer paid Medicaid, rent subsidies, energy assistance, food stamps and illegal alien law enforcement.
5. Elimination of TAX INCREMENT FINANCING (TIF) and SALES TAX INCREMENT FINANCING (STIF) that deprive schools, police & fire, road & bridge repair, water & sewer upgrades, libraries and other essential government services from needed tax revenue.
6. Elimination of TIF RECOVERY on the residential property tax bills that pay for business tax cuts.
7. Elimination of ALL CORPORATE WELFARE such as TAX CREDITS, TAX GRANTS, TRAINING GRANTS and ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCOME TAXES (EDIT) on family income.
8. STOP business taxes from being SHIFTED to residential property taxpayers and to low & middle class income taxpayers.
9. Say NO to NEW, high density, cheap, vinyl housing.
A $250,000 home is required to pay property taxes for essential government services.
10. Read the “Great American Jobs Scam, Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation” book by Greg LeRoy available at the Indiana government library in Indianapolis or your local library.
Sincerely,
Brent Pittman
Brownsburg[[In-content Ad]]
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