Michigan Votes Forum

Introduced in the Senate on September 9, 2008

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Property taxes need to be TOTALLY eliminated now. The are the most unjust, gestapo-type tax there is. Free country? Don't pay them and see the gestapo come visit you.

Will help some of the burden that Michigan citizens are currently carrying & hopefully allows them to survive the ride until the economy can pick up a little bit more.

Assessment values, market values and assessors values, should reflect the true depreciation of subdivision, such as boarded-up houses, burned-out houses, closed-up commerical real properties and closed-up public schools. All, real properties, for taxation purposes, should reflect true depreciation value and true appreciation value!! sign: Robert Thomas

 ... it means whatever I want it to mean.  Taxable value is supposed to reflect arms-length exchange - true value.  We've been using all kinds of modified, adjusted, estimates that are wrong rather than actual arms-length cash paid for a house.  Appraisers play all kinds of games so that if a house sold for $80K, but they think it should be higher for some reason (increased taxes), they pretend that their modified, estimated, adjusted guess is more accurate than the actual cash paid. 

We should go to actual cash paid just as a reality check.