Tell you about the personal experience of a 94-year-old grandmother, Latin Taylor, and see how miserable she is. In the U.S., you have to pay property taxes every year after you buy a house. The grandmother's house is in Henry Ping County, and she took Taylor's home because of her unpaid $2,300 in real estate taxes and $12,700 in interest, fines and fees. Then the county paid $40,000 for ***, deducting $15,000 in taxes, interest and related payables he owed, and the extra $25,000 became **'s income, and she didn't get a penny. A professional high-level in-house counsel would stand up for her and sue her county** in Henry Ping, where she was located, only to lose the lawsuit, and now appeal to the High Court, asking the High Court to uphold her property rights. The case was argued in the High Court on April 26, and the grandmother's house was in arrears of land tax and related fines, resulting in the entire real estate being used to offset taxes and debts, and the excess money was not given to her.
This is legal under local law, and her case is not unique, with about 12 states and the capital, Washington, D.C., legally allowing local ** to do so. If you own a property in the U.S., take a look at this chart and carefully check which state has property tax laws. The laws are different in every state in the United States, and even different cities in the same state have different laws. Property taxes are collected locally, not federally. The picture shows that the red state is ** confiscated the entire property, and the green state is *** property after deducting the arrears, and the rest of the money is owned by the property owner. In red-painted states, when a homeowner fails to pay or underpays real estate taxes, the local government places a lien on the home. If the tax is still not paid, the ownership of the house will be confiscated, the tax will be deducted after the house is auctioned, and the remaining money will be used as additional income for the place. If you have a house in this red state, then you should pay attention, if you owe property tax, you must pay it in time, if you really can't pay it, and the value of the property is greater than the tax, don't drag it to ** to confiscate the property rights, you would rather sell the house yourself before the confiscation, pay back the tax on the money from the sale of the house, and the rest can be owned by yourself.
I would like to add here that the biggest mistake of the United States is to call this thing "property tax" (property tax), so that it becomes a reason to be scolded. It should be renamed as community building maintenance** Education surcharge Public security management** + overall retention fund Natural resource occupation compensation Public utility surcharge, the word tax cannot be mentioned.
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