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Old 09-25-2019, 03:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Ben Franklin View Post
Florida governments set property taxes for the current year by September 30th. This means that if you purchased your home, on say, July 1st, then at closing, the seller pays the taxes for the first 6 months, based on last year's tax rate. Even though you didn't own your home, for the first 6 months, you are required to pay the difference between the old tax rate and the new tax rate, for something you didn't even own.

Government needs to change their system, so that they create budgets for the next year by September 30th and collect that tax in the next year, so we don't have to pay for something we didn't even own.

Thoughts?
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