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property tax reductions in Florida
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Chip Orange
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May 18, 2009 07:01 PDT
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for anyone who wants more info on the technicalities of the Florida
property tax roll-backs, which all Floridians voted on last year, here's
a web site which explains it. It's complex in that it also reduces
business property taxes and other taxes as well as residential property
taxes. this is why local governments are struggling to provide even
basic services:
http://www.ficpa.org/ficpa/ResourceCenter/Publications/FCT/Technical/Sta
teLocalGovernment/FloridasPropertyTaxReform
"Florida's Property Tax Reform
By Raymond L. Placid, JD, CPA, Gary Jackson, Ph.D. and Shelton Weeks,
Ph.D.
In 2007, the Florida Legislature passed the largest property tax cut in
Florida's
history. The legislation contained two components: the rolled-back rate
system and
an amendment to the Florida Constitution.
The rolled-back rate system will save property owners approximately
$15 billion
in property taxes over the next five years.
The constitutional amendment, which was approved by the voters in
January of 2008,
will save property owners an additional $9.3 billion in property taxes
over the next
five years."
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Chip Orange
Database Administrator
Florida Public Service Commission
Chip.O-@psc.state.fl.us
(850) 413-6314
(Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not
necessarily reflect those of the Florida Public Service Commission.)
| | -----Original Message-----
From: Chip Orange
Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 9:24 AM
To: 'TA-@topica.com'
Subject: RE: [TABI] important Tallahassee commission tonight!!!
They definitely have been; it was a recent amend to Florida's
constitution requiring all local government to roll-back
property taxes to 2001 levels, and not allowing them to
increase from there.
It was the worst thing to happen to Florida in a long time,
and those who depend upon governmental services such as
transportation are going to bear the brunt of it. It's
everything from reduce or not mosqueto control, to reduced
emergency medical and energy and food assistance for the
poor, to decreased public parks and recreation.
this can easily be googled under the topic of Florida and
"amendment 1".
Chip
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Chip Orange
Database Administrator
Florida Public Service Commission
Chip.O-@psc.state.fl.us
(850) 413-6314
(Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and
do not necessarily reflect those of the Florida Public
Service Commission.)
| | -----Original Message-----
From: Darla Rogers [mailto:djroge-@comcast.net]
Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 11:15 PM
To: TA-@topica.com
Subject: Re: [TABI] important Tallahassee commission tonight!!!
You aren't alone, Blackjack. If the taxes were lowered on
our apartment
complex, we sure didn't see an of it.
Darla
Darla J. Rogers, B.A., M.S.
Skype ID." wildflower0628
"Today, I will search for my own truth and will allow
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others to do the
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others. We are each on the journey, making our own discoveries--the
ones that are right for us today."
----- Original Message -----
From: "Blackjack" <black-@tds.net>
To: <TA-@topica.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 6:30 PM
Subject: RE: [TABI] important Tallahassee commission tonight!!!
| | Hum my property tax did not go down. I don't know why I
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thought that they
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Thanks,
Blackjack
black-@tds.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Chip Orange [mailto:Cora-@PSC.STATE.FL.US]
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 9:28 AM
To: TA-@topica.com
Subject: RE: [TABI] important Tallahassee commission tonight!!!
In this case they aren't raising taxes, just shifting them
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from property
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Chip
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Chip Orange
Database Administrator
Florida Public Service Commission
Chip.O-@psc.state.fl.us
(850) 413-6314
(Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not
necessarily reflect those of the Florida Public Service
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Commission.)
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| | -----Original Message-----
From: Blackjack [mailto:black-@tds.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 10:16 PM
To: TA-@topica.com
Subject: RE: [TABI] important Tallahassee commission tonight!!!
I know we need help in getting where we need to go. But
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raising taxes
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how they do
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pot. Just my
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Thanks,
Blackjack
black-@tds.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Darla Rogers [mailto:djroge-@comcast.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 6:07 PM
To: TA-@topica.com
Subject: Re: [TABI] important Tallahassee commission tonight!!!
Let the taxes begin, or let the drivers help us get to our
appointments, shopping or whatever.
My heart bleeds ice water!!!!!
Darla
Darla J. Rogers, B.A., M.S.
Skype ID." wildflower0628
"Today, I will search for my own truth and will allow
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others to do the
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I will place value on my vision, as well as on the vision
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of others.
| | | | We are each on the journey, making our own
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discoveries--the ones that
| | | | are right for us today."
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chip Orange" <acor-@comcast.net>
To: <TA-@topica.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 11:29 AM
Subject: [TABI] important Tallahassee commission tonight!!!
| | from today's Democrat:
tallahassee.com
May 12, 2009
Leon County commissioners to consider gas tax By Will
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Brown DEMOCRAT
| | | | | | STAFF WRITER Leon County commissioners will debate
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this afternoon
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pay at the gas pump.
Counties have the option to pass local-option fuel taxes for
transportation expenses, which in this case would expand
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StarMetro
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unincorporated
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of the
county and fund the county's Transportation Trust Fund.
Consumers in the county now pay 30 cents per gallon for
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local and state
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is on par with many counties in the region.
"It's sort of like sticker shock," said Jim Smith,
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president of the
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Association. "Look
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are today. The
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price of gasoline went up 16 cents last week. My members
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reported angry
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- (but the customers are) not realizing we are just as
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angry as they are -
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sales."
An analysis by county staff of the tax hike's
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feasibility found that
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annually between
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and 2014, while
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expenditures will grow 3.9 percent during that period.
At 6 p.m. there will be the first of two public hearings on
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revisions to
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county
ordinance regulating the permitting and placement of
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billboards. The
| | | | | | ordinance is designed to limit the total inventory of
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signs in Leon
| | | | | | County's unincorporated area, and to reduce the number of signs
through a cap-and-replace
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method in
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since
2007.
For a sign company to install a new digital billboard, the
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business must
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remove as many as four existing billboards.
According to figures from the Department of Growth &
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Environmental
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unincorporated
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also signs
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not yet installed, and unused sign certificates for
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billboards removed.
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puts
the total inventory at approximately 76 signs.
The department estimated in a March 18 memo that the
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billboard inventory
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only
been reduced by 4 percent under the cap-and-replace rule.
d Democrat business editor Dave Hodges contributed to this
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report. Contact
Check out the TABI resource web page at:
http://acorange.home.comcast.net/TABI/
(be sure and make suggestions)
Check out the TABI resource web page at:
http://acorange.home.comcast.net/TABI/
(be sure and make suggestions)
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Check out the TABI resource web page at:
http://acorange.home.comcast.net/TABI/
(be sure and make suggestions)
Check out the TABI resource web page at:
http://acorange.home.comcast.net/TABI/
(be sure and make suggestions)
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Check out the TABI resource web page at:
http://acorange.home.comcast.net/TABI/
(be sure and make suggestions)
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