[kappy]

How would you like to save $348 or more every year? Silly question; we all would. It’s simple. That $348 is the amount of tax that the County imposed on your home by the 2019 25% tax increase if your home had a taxable value of $255,700. Of course, that amount will increase or decrease based upon whether the taxable value was more or less than the $255,700 value used in The Villages Daily Sun article on January 13, 2021. Actually that tax payment would increase annually by 3% or the CPI, whichever is lower. If the CPI averaged only 1.5% every year, after 10 years, you would be paying almost $400. And the reason for these payments is the unfair 25% tax increase imposed on all Sumter County homeowners in 2019 due to The Villages expansion below Rt. 44.

The County Commissioners chose to impose that enormous tax increase instead of raising the Sumter County impact fees to the 100% rate from the current 40% rate. The increased costs associated with any new development should be borne by the people who are getting the benefits of that new development. That is, the new homeowners, not homeowners who have already paid for the roads that they are using. Taxes are paid annually; impact fees are paid only once, at the time that each new home is built. Increasing the impact fee to the 100% rate would only add $1458 to each new home built in The Villages That amount will not stop people from buying homes in The Villages.

How do we accomplish this annual tax savings? Just go to the Sumter County website and call or email the Commissioners and let them know that you want them to roll back the 25% tax increase and raise the impact fees to the 100% rate. After all, the road costs generated by the new development below Rt. 44 should be paid for by the beneficiaries of that expansion.

[Arctic Fox]

Originally Posted by kappy

Just go to the Sumter County website and call or email the Commissioners...

Can you post contact details here (web page, telephone number, e-mail address) to save everyone having to look them up individually.

Thank you

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by Arctic Fox

Can you post contact details here (web page, telephone number, e-mail address) to save everyone having to look them up individually.

Thank you

Why didn’t you share?

Sumter County Commissioners email addresses

Gary.Search@sumtercountyfl.gov
Craig.Estep@sumtercountyfl.gov
oren.miller@sumtercountyfl.gov

[birdiebill]

There was a more recent article in the Daily Sun about the recent meeting at Everglades Rec Center about the impact fee. Apparently there are several categories of construction that pay the impact fee. The developer of over 55 housing pays one rate. The developer or builder of housing outside of the over 55 development pay a higher fee. The highest impact fee is paid by commercial and retail businesses. The article claimed that the county can not just raise the impact fee on the developer; the percent fee increase occurs across the board on all categories of development. We need more commercial development. We need more housing for workers in the county. We need more retail for those living south of 44. There is a huge UF Health hospital/research development that is approved but in jeopardy if the impact fee on their development goes up.

The increase in taxes was not enormous considering there was NO increase for 14 years. I believe that county network roads should be paid for by the county. The developer should pay for roads WITHIN the residential areas of his development. I like the improvement of the roads from Morse south of 44 down to 501 and then to 470 to the turnpike.

[dewilson58]

Originally Posted by kappy

let them know that you want them to roll back the 25% tax increase and raise the impact fees to the 100% rate. .

DO the MATH................100% rate in impact fee will not cover the lost property tax revenue generated by the 25%.


Clueless!!!!

[Garywt]

So what would have been the result is the county had raised taxes every year up to last year instead or holding them for 10 or so years, would have cost even more. Our taxes did not go up 25% in Marion County but I did follow this last year.

[Arctic Fox]

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

Why didn’t you share?

I have nothing to share. I was merely suggesting to the OP that if he made it easy for people to follow his advice then more people would do so.

[kappy]

Do you realize why there was no increase in the County rate for 14 years? For the same reason that we had a 4% rate reduction last year. The growth of The Villages generates enough additional tax revenue every year to allow for a reduction. And the growth of The Villages is what will keep new businesses flocking to Sumter County.

[Bob in Fishers]

You will pay one way or another

[Love2Swim]

Originally Posted by kappy

Do you realize why there was no increase in the County rate for 14 years? For the same reason that we had a 4% rate reduction last year. The growth of The Villages generates enough additional tax revenue every year to allow for a reduction. And the growth of The Villages is what will keep new businesses flocking to Sumter County.

Exactly.

[J1ceasar]

Okay in that case if it wasn't enormous please pay mine also out of your pocket the point is if you really look at the budget they increased spending by $50 million since I could use up the taxes that they collected for last year if they kept to a similar budget and use the money that was elected if there was a 100% infrastructure tax it would have been fairer as so many people like to always say fair tax fair tax fair tax

[Leadbone1]

So how is that $348 a year is going to affect your life? I’ll take the better roads!

[J1ceasar]

Yes we will pay one way or the other but I prefer the other way which is the infrastructure tax, which is how every other county in Florida does it

[birdiebill]

It was a fair tax increase. County network roads are used by and available for all residents and visitors to the county. Thus they should be funded by the county.