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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_j63mm59 wrote

Reply to comment by 28carslater in 2 Western Pa. school districts shifted money around to raise taxes, Pa. auditor general says by Jumpy-Natural4868

That's just the median time in the US that homeowners live in one place before selling and moving, but the pattern is real. A suburb gets hot, then the taxes increase to fund the services that the community needs, and people move to the next cheap taxpayer-subsidized development. When I moved here it was some developments in Ross Township, since then Robinson, McCandless, Cranberry, etc. Apparently Cecil is a thing now.

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28carslater t1_j63xpqc wrote

Thanks. In this county I would think the constant movement isn't as advantageous due to the broken assessments system though Cranberry and Cecil may not be as affected.

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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_j63ybx3 wrote

Not sure what's broken? My shit hasn't been reassessed in forever and is assessed at less than half what I paid. I think my taxes are ~$950 a year all in.
 
To be honest, anyone who moves to Butler County because they're mad about their tax bill deserves to live there.

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28carslater t1_j64az07 wrote

Many would argue the assessment system is broken, in more recent years some of the gov't entities have been spot assessing recent buys effectively punishing the new owners.

That's a fair amount of people there, but something else to remember is much of the new SFH has been in Cranberry and along 68 because the taxes are somewhat tolerable. In this some parts of this county the same properties would have double the taxes and not be feasible to build in the first place.

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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_j64b96o wrote

Nobody lives in Cranberry Township. There are fewer than 31k people there, less than 200K in all of Butler County.
 
Low taxes in Cranberry aren't sustainable. Eventually the local authority will have to raise taxes to match the service levels that people there expect, and those people will leave and move to the next cheap suburb where they can pay artificially low taxes. Same as it ever was.

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pAul2437 t1_j6406bs wrote

You’re underpaying taxes and are mad about other people doing the same?

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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_j641rmh wrote

I'm not mad at them, Allegheny County is better off without them.

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pAul2437 t1_j698cxg wrote

You as well! If you move they will be able to reassess and get the fair share

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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_j698x38 wrote

The house has been sold twice since the last assessment. As far as I can tell the city / school district only reassess in hot neighborhoods.

 
The city and school district get 3% of our gross income so I'm not going to feel too bad about the low house assessment.

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pAul2437 t1_j69yynu wrote

You’re being subsidized by folks paying fair value

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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_j6a5gcu wrote

They can reassess my house if they're that worried about it, the 3% EIT they're getting out of my wife and I is multiple times the difference they'd get if they reassessed my house to what I paid for it.

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pAul2437 t1_j6ahpms wrote

Doesn’t make sense. Your neighbors are paying the 3 percent as well. You are being subsidized with bottom barrel taxes

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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_j6aih7f wrote

The difference between what I paid and the assessment is about $905 in property taxes. My wife and I pay about $5500 a year in local EIT. The city's getting theirs.

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