Received town tax bill today

debodun said:
It's like dealing with the cable company.

It amazes me that I house I paid close to $300K is only assessed at $158K.
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I would have thought that houses in small towns in upstate New York would be cheap. We lived there in 1976-78 and the col was high in comparison to the wages. We went back to Wisconsin where the wages were much higher and the col lower. It is a beautiful region.
 

Jules said:
Terry, do you have a monthly HOA fee. Some places around here have the general building taxes included in that and then they pay something for their own units. You’re lucky that Texas has tax benefits for seniors. We pay a fortune for our taxes and services. There is a partial deduction for seniors. I feel lucky that we have a home to pay taxes on.
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yes we do. There is an increase around every 5 years. That is the only thing I dislike about owning a condo.
 
VaughanJB said:
We have "Council Tax" here in the UK, which sorta amounts to the same thing. Bills of £1000 plus are common.
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In the UK each council sets it's own Council tax rate. Most of The New Forest area, where I live, is in the county of Hampshire, but it does encroach into neighbouring counties around the periphery. My village is just half a mile away from Hampshire, but my Council is Dorset.
And that is a very expensive county. Had I lived in Hampshire my council tax would have been £2,109 for 2024. In Dorset it's £3,280.

UK councils set their rates by various means, one of which is property valuations, and the number of rooms in a home. The tax varies in what are known as tax bands. Dorset goes from Band "A" the lowest to Band "H" being the highest. My home is in Band "F."

Dorset is home to Sandbanks, so expensive is Sandbanks that it's dubbed: Mayfair-on-Sea. Mayfair being just about the wealthiest place to live in London. The valuation of the multi-million pound homes of Sandbanks has a knock-on effect for the rest of the county.

Sandbanks is an affluent neighbourhood of Poole, Dorset, on the south coast of England, situated on a narrow spit of around half a square mile, extending into the mouth of Poole Harbour. It is known for its high property prices and for its award-winning beach.

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horseless carriage said:
In the UK each council sets it's own Council tax rate. Most of The New Forest area, where I live, is in the county of Hampshire, but it does encroach into neighbouring counties around the periphery. My village is just half a mile away from Hampshire, but my Council is Dorset.
And that is a very expensive county. Had I lived in Hampshire my council tax would have been £2,109 for 2024. In Dorset it's £3,280.

UK councils set their rates by various means, one of which is property valuations, and the number of rooms in a home. The tax varies in what are known as tax bands. Dorset goes from Band "A" the lowest to Band "H" being the highest. My home is in Band "F."

Dorset is home to Sandbanks, so expensive is Sandbanks that it's dubbed: Mayfair-on-Sea. Mayfair being just about the wealthiest place to live in London. The valuation of the multi-million pound homes of Sandbanks has a knock-on effect for the rest of the county.

Sandbanks is an affluent neighbourhood of Poole, Dorset, on the south coast of England, situated on a narrow spit of around half a square mile, extending into the mouth of Poole Harbour. It is known for its high property prices and for its award-winning beach.

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I thought you lived in the New forest HC...which is in Hampshire... :unsure:
 
hollydolly said:
I thought you lived in the New forest HC...which is in Hampshire... :unsure:
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I live about half-a-mile from the edge of Hampshire, Ringwood Hants is about three miles away but it's border stretches out about three miles.
I live about a mile on the outskirts of Verwood, note the suffix of "Wood," Verwood was originally recorded as Beau Bois (Norman French: "beautiful wood") in 1288, and it was not until 1329 that it got the name Verwood, which developed from Fairwood or Fayrewood.

To the north Landford and Nomansland villages sit within Wiltshire and they are in The New Forest and are just 10 miles from Salisbury. It's a large area Holly. It takes a bit of concentrating but if you click on this link, you will get a zoom view of The Forest
 
horseless carriage said:
I live about half-a-mile from the edge of Hampshire, Ringwood Hants is about three miles away but it's border stretches out about three miles.
I live about a mile on the outskirts of Verwood, note the suffix of "Wood," Verwood was originally recorded as Beau Bois (Norman French: "beautiful wood") in 1288, and it was not until 1329 that it got the name Verwood, which developed from Fairwood or Fayrewood.

To the north Landford and Nomansland villages sit within Wiltshire and they are in The New Forest and are just 10 miles from Salisbury. It's a large area Holly. It takes a bit of concentrating but if you click on this link, you will get a zoom view of The Forest
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I used to live in Hampshire.. (Gosport when it was nice )... way back in the 70's.... never been to the New Forest, altho' I've seen lots of videos about it.. and a friend who lives in Southampton insists she lives in the New forest
 
debodun said:
We pay a library fee on the village tax (in June), too even though it's called a "free" library. Here, everything is taxed. We also have a debt service fee tacked onto our water and sewer bill.
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our library is also taxed but it's not a separate tax... it's included in our ''council tax'' which HC explained above...^^^ I was just confused as to if a patient is billed for the use of an ambulance ( which they're not here) .. why home-owners are being billed for it also..
 
terry123 said:
yes we do. There is an increase around every 5 years. That is the only thing I dislike about owning a condo.
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5 years is a long time between increases. I have owned homes and condos and costs go up yearly if you need repairs, etc. If the condo fees didn’t go up then repairs are not getting done.
 
hollydolly said:
I used to live in Hampshire.. (Gosport when it was nice )... way back in the 70's.... never been to the New Forest, altho' I've seen lots of videos about it.. and a friend who lives in Southampton insists she lives in the New forest
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What a coincidence. Forest Gate, London E7 where we first lived after marriage, was considered desirable for those on the national budget. That was back in 1968, what a toilet it is today. Our neighbour back then hailed from Gosport, his wife was a Londoner and he had met her at work. When I asked him whereabouts Gosport was, he joked that it was the arse of Hampshire.

Knowing that Portsmouth was less than favourable I quipped, "Well if Gosport's the arse, where does that leave Pompey?" ( For those unfamiliar, Pompey is the nickname of Portsmouth.) "Portsmouth," my neighbour said, "is the haemorrhoid."
 
horseless carriage said:
What a coincidence. Forest Gate, London E7 where we first lived after marriage, was considered desirable for those on the national budget. That was back in 1968, what a toilet it is today. Our neighbour back then hailed from Gosport, his wife was a Londoner and he had met her at work. When I asked him whereabouts Gosport was, he joked that it was the arse of Hampshire.

Knowing that Portsmouth was less than favourable I quipped, "Well if Gosport's the arse, where does that leave Pompey?" ( For those unfamiliar, Pompey is the nickname of Portsmouth.) "Portsmouth," my neighbour said, "is the haemorrhoid."
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when we lived in Gosport it was the mid 70's and it was very ice... Pompey had a terrible name even then, and we were glad we had the Solent between us... .. Pompey is still a dive.. and I've heard that Gosport too has gone downhill... however comparing the 2 on google street view, I can see Gosport is still far superior to Portsmouth .

Fortunately we were only there a year ..in Naval Married quarters and then moved to Plymouth, again onto a Naval base ...ha!..now there's a rotten place if ever there was one...
 
I lived for many years in Horndean which is close to the Hampshire-W.Sussex border. Horndean (meaning a horn shaped wooded valley) was the last in a string of small settlements that stretched from Portsmouth along the main road to London. It was a popular place to live, but still relatively cheap because it had no rail links. I can't remember how much our council tax was, but it was a lot more than I'm paying here - and I get a far better service for my money. Currently I pay £1600 pa including water, sewage and local taxes.

I used to take the motorhome to the New Forest as few times each year for a few days. It used to be cheap, but I suspect it's a lot more now.
 
Capt Lightning said:
I used to take the motorhome to the New Forest as few times each year for a few days. It used to be cheap, but I suspect it's a lot more now.
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You might enjoy The Moors Valley Country Park and Forest. It's on the Hampshire/Dorset border. Ringwood is the southern point, Verwood to the north and the wonderfully named, Three Legged Cross to the west. The eastern boundary is the A338 road that runs between Salisbury and Bournemouth.

You are right that it can be expensive, but it is still very popular. The New Forest ponies can be quite tame and will often feed from the hand. Even the deer, although wary, don't run unless they are spooked. The Motorhome is the perfect vehicle for touring the forest.
 
Now that I've retired and headed back north, I've only been down south once in recent years. I worked initially for IBM in Havant until that closed so I moved to North Harbour and then Hursley park, Winchester. My job however, took me all over the UK, Europe and occasionally the US, so I didn't spend a lot of time in the office.
Mrs. L was the admin officer in a Havant school, but it was amalgamated with another school and some of the long serving staff took the opportunity to retire early.

Horndean was fine, but if you moved either north or south to a town with rail links to London, the property prices and tax shot up.
 
hollydolly said:
trouble is Capt/...you're miles from anything....that's why it's so cheap I would guess..:)
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True to a degree. When I lived in Hampshire, rural property was sought after and expensive. Strictly, Horndean was a village, but was the size of a small town. Here, rural and village houses are relatively cheap, so the corresponding council tax is less. Yes, we are miles from anything, but most things are easy to get to. Larger stores are about 20-25 minutes drive. There's little traffic and nearly all parking is free.
 
Capt Lightning said:
True to a degree. When I lived in Hampshire, rural property was sought after and expensive. Strictly, Horndean was a village, but was the size of a small town. Here, rural and village houses are relatively cheap, so the corresponding council tax is less. Yes, we are miles from anything, but most things are easy to get to. Larger stores are about 20-25 minutes drive. There's little traffic and nearly all parking is free.
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Do you worry about when you're older and perhaps unable to get around easily ?
 
Paladin1950 said:
I live in New York and I never get a town tax bill. Then again, I rent.
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I find that very tempting every time my property taxes are due. Some of my friends rent now and I envy the fact they have lost the property taxes.
 

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