I don't know how many of my fellow citizens received or saw their 2008 property tax bill this year. I live in St. Tammany and I assure you mine went up 300% this year. Before hurricane Katrina I paid a little over $800. My new bill is now over $2200. In this economy where every nickel counts the greedy hand of government wants more of my hard earned dollars.
The homestead exemption for Louisiana is currently $75,000. If they had indexed this to inflation it would be around $150,000. So whats happening is an unfair burden is falling on the working people. My parents are over 65 and they pay only $200 a year. I also don't want to hear business are going to pay an unfair share. A business is just going to pass the cost on to us. At least this way it will get spread out more evenly. Here is a link to the online petition. Please go and sign your name today.
John Walters is a licensed Realtor in Louisiana that can assist you with the purchase and/or sale of real estate in the Slidell, Lacombe, Pearl River and all of St. Tammany Parish.
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John, thanks for sharing this site. Hopefully someone in Baton Rouge will look at it. Maybe send this link over to Tommy Willmont our friend in the state rep house.
Hi John, can hardly believe that kind of increase in this economy. I have no clue what people are suppose to do. Nice update on your areas situation John.
This looks like one more piece of evidence in the case of government needing to harvest tax dollars wherever they can. I hope the petition finds support.
Hi John:
That's absolutely ridiculous!
Wages go down, but taxes keep going up...
You are right on the money. Everything gets passed right on down.
Thanks for linking the Petition John!
The proposal set for the by my Internet petition is not one to raise the homestead exemption. Rather it calls for its adjustment against the rate of inflation. The 75,000 dollars it was set at in 1982 would be over 160,000 dollars today. This adjustment in the exemption is only in keeping with the original intent and purpose of the law.
This petition does not call for raising anyone's taxes, not will there be any automatic tax increases when the Homestead Exemption is raised. It's also a misleading criticism to say that this proposal does nothing but "shift the tax burden" or when it does nothing in itself to call for the creation of new taxes. In fact only corrects the real tax shift which has been onto homeowners for the last 27 years as governments have quietly enjoyed de facto tax increases without the approval by letting our valued homestead exemption shrink to less than half it's intended value.
Regards and thanks for your support!
Joshua Kahler