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Old 09-25-2014, 01:50 PM
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Originally Posted by zcaveman View Post
Five responses and no one mentioned the AMENITIES part of Ddoug's question.

My answer is that the tax rate has nothing to do with the amenities fees. The amenity fees are paid by the villages living in the villages to pay for the activities that we love to do. What does that have to do with the tax base of Sumter county?

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And the amenities fees are also used to pay the developer's lawyers in the IRS investigation, thereby trying to protect the developer's bottom line.