Society DeSantis pushing to end Property Taxes in Florida

[Robbie Hart]

But what is it? When do you pay it and on what?

Is it a sales tax or something you pay after making improvements to something (it's "value added tax", right?) or something you declare with yearly income taxes or...?

On everything

 

[Uncle Tom Doug]

On everything

Why does anyone still live there?

 

[Robbie Hart]

Why does anyone still live there?

Good point

 

[kvr28]

Obama was pushing hard for a VAT here

 

[Jamie999]

Property taxes are bullshit
They don’t have them in the UK
End them in the entire US

UK has "property taxes" They're just structured differently. They're paid by the resident if the owner doesn't live in them otherwise paid by the owner if it's owner occupied or vacant.

They call it council tax but it's the same shit just paid by residency rather than ownership.

I am living in another country and I'm in a condo and I pay the condo fees as a tenant.. they're still condo fees... Even though the owner isn't paying.

Council tax in UK and property taxes in USA aren't very different.

 

[Jamie999]

The reason why property tax is structured a bit different in UK and done by residency not ownership is because land ownership use to be massively restricted to just the ruling class.. They don't want them paying the taxes but their subjects.. So they do it by residency not ownership. That's continued to today even though ownership rates are now pretty similar to other western countries.

 

[Jamie999]

And VAT doesn't go to local/municipal level.. It's a federal tax going into a general federal tax fund.