Governor Ron Roanis began to talk about removing taxes on ownership for homeowners in Florida.
I don’t think he really means it. For starters, this would make Florida the only country that has no property tax.
And if he has come into force, he will knock a significant hole in Florida’s budget, which requires a new or extended tax to replace it – and he doesn’t talk about it.
So, I would just strengthen it to empty political posing. Again.
Still, it is fun to listen to him to wonder about the property tax, as if it were some new evil plot in a deep state he had just discovered and was angry with his application.
“Is this your property or not? Just because you are at your property year after year, you have to write a government check every year, “he said last week. “So you generally pay the government to live in your own property.”
Oh, the outrage of everything! He handled a solid 9 on the scale of fake entertainment.
Desantis leaves the part that your property has a neighborhood public school nearby, allowing all children to have an education. And that if you call 911 from your property, you get a police car, an ambulance or a fire truck there within minutes to answer your individual emergency situation.
Or that your property has a public library nearby for your use and a sewer system that protects your properties from flooding and processing water at the faucets of your property and nearby maintenance parks where you and your neighbors can play and attract trucks dedicated to make sure that you do not have to leave all your waste.
Governor Ron Roanis talks about immigration at a press conference at the office of the sheriff of Palm Beach Sheriff’s Sheriff’s Sheriff at a non -intruded Palm Beach County, Florida, on January 30, 2025.
Why is Desantis suddenly interested in property tax?
I think the landing should talk about home sites during some imaginary borderlines. Yes, pretended confusion is deep.
It also involves pretending to be ridiculous to even consider how much your property is worth it for tax purposes.
“The reality is that you don’t really know how much your home costs until someone offers you money and is ready to pull the trigger on sale. That’s how the market works, “said Zanthis. “You can say it’s worth it so much, but if no one is ready to offer you so much, why should you pay taxes on that amount?”
So, the tax is zero until you sell it?
The arrival of removal of ownership taxes is quite delayed by Epiphanis for landing. After all, he spent a long 12-year phase-six years in the US Congress and for another six years as a manager to call for the removal of ownership tax.
Governor Ron Roanis gives his state address on the day of the opening of the legislative session in Florida, Tuesday, March 4, 2025.
And now, we made us believe that it was suddenly near the top of his task list.
As I said, I don’t believe it. Also, the numbers are not added.
State legislators have already ignited on the periphery of ownership taxes in Florida. Florida saves a limitation of our homes’ estimates an annual increase in ownership taxes and is one of the almost dozen tax reliefs that have already been accepted.
Getting rid of ownership taxes would create a $ 43 billion hole in the state budget, which works to $ 2,015 per person, the Florida Institute estimated.
The property tax imposed on housing owners strengthens the budgets of cities and cities by nearly 30%and represents about half of the money for local schools.
Eliminating this source of revenue exceeds all upholstery realized by dealing with proverbial waste, fraud and abuse. This most likely means to collect another tax to compensate for the lost revenue.
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Removal of ownership tax will have many pulsation effects
And Florida options are limited. There is no state income tax to touch. And the legislators killed the so -called intangible tax in 2006, a stock and bond tax, which could raise several billion dollars a year.
This leaves the state sales tax, which is already 6%.
“If policy creators eliminate ownership taxes and replace them with higher consumption taxes (ie sales taxes), they will have to double the total rate of state sales tax,” the Florida Political Institute found.
The institute said the doubled tax on country sales up to 12% – which will make the Florida sales tax high in the country – it will raise about $ 40 billion, which is still short, but near the hole created by the loss of ownership taxes.
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This would also be an extremely regressive tax that affects disproportionately low -to -mode Floridians.
And Florida already has the dubious distinction to be the most refugeing tax structure in the country due to the reading of excise duties on gasoline, alcohol and tobacco, and not on income tax, according to the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy.
Department has already stated that it will not support the raising of the state’s sales tax rate to pay for the loss of income from the removal of property tax.
“Well, I’m almost sure that the legislature will not raise sales tax and I’m quite sure that it will veto every increase,” he said on social media.
Well, in this case I am almost certain that all these conversations to terminate ownership taxes without reliable and sufficient compensation for lost revenue is the legislative equivalent of candy for dinner.
There is nothing to see here, people. Just more political theater.
Frank Kerabino is a news column with Palm Beach Post, which is part of USA Today Network-Florida. You can contact it at fcerabino@gannett.comS
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