Renters, Home Owners, and Hidden Taxes: A Transparent Tax System Would Lower the Cost of Owning or Renting a Home

In the same way that a transparent tax system makes it possible for the prices of the stuff we buy to be lower, a properly designed transparent tax system would lower the cost of owning a home.

Renters, Home Owners, and Hidden Taxes: Topic Increasing Numbers of Seniors Creates Potential for Lower Property Tax Revenues

For several years to come, there is going to be an increase in the number of seniors

Renters, Home Owners, and Hidden Taxes: Property Values, Taxes, and Government Funding

Governments that fund all or some of their activities or programs using property taxes are at the mercy of how property values change.  When property values increase, the dollar amount of the property taxes collected also increases without having to change the property tax rate.

Renters, Home Owners, and Hidden Taxes: Property Taxes and Our Aging Baby-boomer Society

While I haven’t looked at all of the property tax assessment practices

Renters, Home Owners, and Hidden Taxes: Property Taxes and The Neediest Members of Society

Even the neediest members of society are paying the property taxes

Renters, Home Owners, and Hidden Taxes: Renters and property taxes.

For renters, property taxes are very much a hidden tax, and is included in the price of the rent they pay.

Renters, Home Owners, and Hidden Taxes: Home owners and property taxes.

For home owners, property taxes do not seem to be a hidden tax because they get a bill, or an assessment, telling them how much they must pay.  Property owners live in the home they own, and they are also landlords who rent to others.

Renters, Home Owners, and Hidden Taxes: Introduction

In this series, among other things, I show how Hidden Taxes are hurting the neediest members of society.