(03-06-2024, 01:22 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(03-06-2024, 01:14 PM)Sneakers Wrote: Simply not being homeless does not equate to paying property tax.  It is paid by property owners, regardless of tenancy and this is true for all property, be it residential, commercial, industrial, farmland, undeveloped, etc.

Right, and the property owner passes it on to the tenant.

As all property owners are burdened by property tax, there is no possibility that owners will compete on this basis, and the price paid by all renters simply goes up.

In effect the renters pay the property tax.

If it were not so, if for some reason the landlord couldn't fund the property tax using money from the tenant, the landlord would walk away from the property and let the tax assessor have it.

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I don’t have a problem with your logic on who is actually paying the property tax as long as you also extend that logic to corporate taxes, which are passed on the the end consumer via price increases resulting in the consumer, not the corporation, paying the tax.  You should be a strong advocate for zero corporate level taxes.

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