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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
Not only are the impact fees created by the new county board not a tax, they won’t be required to be paid by the Developer.
An executive of the Developer is also an elected state representative, a clear conflict of interest. In anticipation of the impact fees planned by the “new” county board, that Developer executive-state rep proposed a new Florida law severely limiting impact fees passed by local government bodies and payable by real estate companies in Florida. The lobbying efforts of those deep pocket developer-beneficiaries of the proposed bill went into action and the bill quickly passed both the Florida House and Senate.
So the large real estate tax increase passed by the “Developer’s county board” has been rescinded, as promised by the newly-elected county commissioners. And the impact fees passed to replace tax revenues and provide funding for new roads and infrastructure has been gutted by the statewide legislation proposed by our Developer’s executive-state rep and passed by the Florida legislature.
So the effect of the self-cancelling measures is that there is no funding in place for the construction of new roads and facilities desired by the Developer to support further development on the south end of The Villages. Sumter County homeowners won’t suffer a big real estate tax increase. And the Developer has figured out how to avoid paying impact fees to pay for the roads.
There are other options that can be used to pay for the new roads, but discussing them here would take too long. What’s important is that the new roads won’t be paid for by all the home owners of Sumter County in the form of big real estate tax increases!
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Impact fees are a tax...anytime we pay the cost that goes to the government it's a tax. And that never gets rolled back. Package it any way you want to, apply it to whomever you wish to, but residents, either all or a portion, will pay for it and the government will receive it and that makes it a tax.