There's the ol' progressive one-two punch. Put you guys in uniform with some black shit-kicker boots and you'll turn this nation around by force if necessary.
Envy is one of the seven deadly sins.
There's the ol' progressive one-two punch. Put you guys in uniform with some black shit-kicker boots and you'll turn this nation around by force if necessary.Give him the 2/3 tax break, then go out and demo 2/3 of the fucker's house and take away 2/3 of his property. Cut his boat in half, plus a little extra, to equal about 2/3. Fuckin rich people jesus Christ.
"Well hello. I own an island with a two part mansion. I want more money"
Envy is one of the seven deadly sins.
I wonder if there's another entry on that list that this particular fellow is doing that God might take exception to.
This has got to be a troll. There is no way two people can be this dumb.
Well the article says he's been paying taxes under protest since 2012;
"Abbey argued appraisers for the state over-valued the property because they compared it to similar properties outside the state, but they did not lower the value after taking into account the property is in Montana."
I don't know how property is supposed to be assessed legally in Montana but that's probably the sticking point.
The local oil refinery did the same thing. They said they would close their company if the taxes were not reduced.
Fixed.He's trying to sell the house for $60m but get taxed at $10m. He has a right to ask but he's an idiot.
Since none of you bit on the initial price for a home near Rollins thats been on the market since 2012, the asking price has tumbled by nearly 24 percent.
Now you can pick it up for a mere $59.5 million, instead of the initial asking price of $78 million.
Well wait a moment while you go grab your checkbook.
It is, according to the Beverly Hills firm that has the listing, currently the largest private home in Montana.
At the same time Abbey listed his Flathead vacation home in 2012, he also put his 34,000-square-foot California home on the market for $78.8 million.
Evidently he is downsizing.
He did not build them to sell them, but maybe hell look for something a little smaller, like 20,000 square feet, his broker, Don Hurwitz, said in an article carried online by Forbes and Zillow in 2012.
The Bradbury Estate, located in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains outside Los Angeles in the affluent community of Bradbury, has also recently had its price reduced, to $68.8 million.
It has seven bedrooms, 10 baths, six fireplaces, 40-foot vaulted ceilings, a 10-car garage with a 6,700-square-foot guest house above it, a huge infinity pool that takes 350,000 gallons of water to fill, a 15-person Jacuzzi and a temperature-controlled trout pond with a two-story waterfall. The estate includes eight acres enclosed inside a stone wall that took three years to build by hand.
Horwitz said it took Abbey several years, and more than $200 million, to build the two mansions. A single Italian marble fireplace in the Bradbury Estate alone cost more than $1 million.
property taxes piss me off... should be taxed based squarely on the size of the lot assuming it's only a 1-family private residence that's on it.
why should the town give a shit if I install central air or remodel a bathroom? if that raises the value of the home, they'll get theirs when the house is sold.
One way around getting taxed so much is to just build a house secretly where nobody ever goes to.
If nobody know then nobody gets hurt.
When I was a lil boy I imagined great James Bond types of homes living underground where nobody can find me.
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When I was a lil boy I imagined great James Bond types of homes living underground where nobody can find me.
OP: I'm not sure what the correct value is, but keep in mind, in most places in the US, assessed value is based on market value not construction value. You can build a super huge house for $100m but if no one will give you more than $1m for it, then it should be assessed at $1m.
But then again, it's dmcowen, why do I even bother responding?
Half of Americans pay no Federal tax at all, they're the ones who should be paying their fair share. This guy paid more taxes last year than everyone else in this thread combined. So who's not paying their fair share?
Just because you, and right wingers, keep repeating it does not make it true.