iowgirl
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Post by iowgirl on Sept 30, 2015 18:49:13 GMT
I could have bought a nice car. 38K. Ouch.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2015 19:00:36 GMT
So painful. Mine is in a month!
So I will do my bi-annual rant here.
Wth! You have had 6 months to figure out your tax. The day it is due is not the day to complain about it! Seriously!
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iowgirl
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Post by iowgirl on Sept 30, 2015 19:02:32 GMT
LOL!
I pay mine online. I don't want to deal with all the grumpy farmers at the courthouse. I live with one, I don't need to seek out any more of them!
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Post by Scrapbrat on Sept 30, 2015 19:19:42 GMT
I could have bought a nice car. 38K. Ouch. Ok, 38K = $38,000. Are you saying you pay $38,000 in property taxes?  ? Every year? |
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iowgirl
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Post by iowgirl on Sept 30, 2015 19:24:17 GMT
I could have bought a nice car. 38K. Ouch. Ok, 38K = $38,000. Are you saying you pay $38,000 in property taxes? ? Every year? Yes. We own a family farm. Enough acres to support us and our livestock. That is what our tax bill is every year. When people piss and moan about all the handouts farmers get, I don't think they have any idea what we pay in taxes also. This is just property tax. Uncle Sam takes a nice chunk of money every year too. 46% of my property tax goes to our school district. |
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Post by jeremysgirl on Sept 30, 2015 19:27:29 GMT
Holy cow! That's a lot of property tax. I'm sure you have some serious property being that you farm, but jeez, I always thought that tax rates were cheaper for farmers. Makes my piddly $2300 a year in property taxes seem trivial. Granted, I have a small city lot.
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iowgirl
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Post by iowgirl on Sept 30, 2015 19:31:57 GMT
It's about 2000 acres of row crop and 900 acres of untillable. (Pasture and timber). That is not a huge amount of ground, if you are support a family. We also raise beef.
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Post by annabella on Sept 30, 2015 19:42:30 GMT
But you must have the income to pay that.
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iowgirl
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Post by iowgirl on Sept 30, 2015 19:52:49 GMT
But you must have the income to pay that. Luckily we do. But it is a large dent. Not every year is profitable though. Some years you lose money, so that is why you bank it on the good years. Grain prices are down hard and the cattle market took a shit too. So the upcoming year isn't looking as rosy as the past few have been. But that is how it works. Inputs are at an all time high. Income is not. Too bad one doesn't follow the other. |
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Post by scrapaddie on Sept 30, 2015 19:55:05 GMT
I could have bought a nice car. 38K. Ouch. Wow!!! And I thought our taxes are high! Where are you? I only pay about 12,000 per year |
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Post by MDscrapaholic on Sept 30, 2015 19:55:05 GMT
I was wondering where on Rodeo Drive or 5th Avenue you live!! LOL, now I see, you have a farm...
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Post by pierkiss on Sept 30, 2015 19:56:22 GMT
I could have bought a nice car. 38K. Ouch. WTF? ? Your property tax bill was 38 THOUSAND dollars? Don ou have an island?  |
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Post by bethany102399 on Sept 30, 2015 20:08:39 GMT
We're gearing up to buy our first house early next year. I've been looking at what our property taxes are and having small panic attacks. I'm going to back away slowly now. That's insane,
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Post by liya on Sept 30, 2015 20:16:35 GMT
I paid my school taxes today. I was going to complain...but I won't.
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Post by basketdiva on Sept 30, 2015 20:35:41 GMT
I'm so glad my property are paid from my escrow account. It's not as painful when someone else writes the check!
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Post by mallie on Sept 30, 2015 21:10:05 GMT
You pay $38K on 2900 acres.
In this town, in contrast, that amount of property taxes would be for approx 2 acres.
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Post by breetheflea on Sept 30, 2015 21:13:54 GMT
Mine is $2600 a year for .18 acres. It's paid automatically somehow twice a year with the mortgage. $38,000 is more than half of DH salary, yikes!
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Post by QueenoftheSloths on Sept 30, 2015 22:29:26 GMT
I have to pay property taxes to support the schools when I never have and never will have any children to benefit from those schools. But at least our taxes are lower than yours.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2015 22:38:18 GMT
[quote author=" iowgirl" and the cattle market took a shit too. I know this is not supposed to be funny , How appropriate! |
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Post by suzastampin on Sept 30, 2015 22:42:17 GMT
I could have bought a nice car. 38K. Ouch. OUCH! Leaves little for me to complain about for our farm taxes. It was a killer writing the check yesterday, but I'll suck it up now. |
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Post by mzza111 on Sept 30, 2015 23:06:30 GMT
But you must have the income to pay that. Luckily we do. But it is a large dent. Not every year is profitable though. Some years you lose money, so that is why you bank it on the good years. Grain prices are down hard and the cattle market took a shit too. So the upcoming year isn't looking as rosy as the past few have been. But that is how it works. Inputs are at an all time high. Income is not. Too bad one doesn't follow the other. This city girl finds farm life so fascinating...in a great way!  It appears to be an easy carefree life but in reality farming is hard work! Years ago there was a PBS "reality" show about a family trying to support itself by farming (wheat, I think) and how they were hoping for a "bumper crop" (love that term) and I think they were hit hard by a drought. It was so interesting to see the their trials & tribulations and successes. |
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Post by gale w on Sept 30, 2015 23:25:47 GMT
Luckily we do. But it is a large dent. Not every year is profitable though. Some years you lose money, so that is why you bank it on the good years. Grain prices are down hard and the cattle market took a shit too. So the upcoming year isn't looking as rosy as the past few have been. But that is how it works. Inputs are at an all time high. Income is not. Too bad one doesn't follow the other. This city girl finds farm life so fascinating...in a great way! It appears to be an easy carefree life but in reality farming is hard work!Years ago there was a PBS "reality" show about a family trying to support itself by farming (wheat, I think) and how they were hoping for a "bumper crop" (love that term) and I think they were hit hard by a drought. It was so interesting to see the their trials & tribulations and successes. DH shocked me yesterday when he said he's considered quitting farming and moving away from here. I don't think he would really do it but it is so stressful and hard. Especially in the spring and fall, when he's working sun up til sun down every day. And the winter when we have to worry about livestock and water fountains freezing. And summer when we have to worry about overheated animals (especially hogs) and constant maintenance. Property tax is probably the biggest advantage to farming on shares or cash rent. We only pay on our 10 acre farm and the contents (including livestock and grain storage). |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2015 23:41:25 GMT
Luckily we do. But it is a large dent. Not every year is profitable though. Some years you lose money, so that is why you bank it on the good years. Grain prices are down hard and the cattle market took a shit too. So the upcoming year isn't looking as rosy as the past few have been. But that is how it works. Inputs are at an all time high. Income is not. Too bad one doesn't follow the other. This city girl finds farm life so fascinating...in a great way! It appears to be an easy carefree life but in reality farming is hard work! Years ago there was a PBS "reality" show about a family trying to support itself by farming (wheat, I think) and how they were hoping for a "bumper crop" (love that term) and I think they were hit hard by a drought. It was so interesting to see the their trials & tribulations and successes. I remember this show. The wife cleaned houses to make ends meet? By the end of it we were really pissed off at them! Why didn't they plant a garden? Or have a couple of steers set aside for their use? I think they didn't even have chickens. |
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Post by freebird on Oct 1, 2015 0:24:57 GMT
When I was in high school, I refused to date any farm boys because I knew I never EVER wanted to be a farm wife. Not knocking anyone that does, just saying it definitely wasn't the job for me! We could have bought a nice used car with our income taxes last year.  It'll be even crazier this year. |
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Post by tania7424 on Oct 1, 2015 3:32:43 GMT
This city girl finds farm life so fascinating...in a great way! It appears to be an easy carefree life but in reality farming is hard work!Years ago there was a PBS "reality" show about a family trying to support itself by farming (wheat, I think) and how they were hoping for a "bumper crop" (love that term) and I think they were hit hard by a drought. It was so interesting to see the their trials & tribulations and successes. DH shocked me yesterday when he said he's considered quitting farming and moving away from here. I don't think he would really do it but it is so stressful and hard. Especially in the spring and fall, when he's working sun up til sun down every day. And the winter when we have to worry about livestock and water fountains freezing. And summer when we have to worry about overheated animals (especially hogs) and constant maintenance. Property tax is probably the biggest advantage to farming on shares or cash rent. We only pay on our 10 acre farm and the contents (including livestock and grain storage). Thank you!! There's a bare 7 acres for rent a few blocks away and I couldn't figure out why someone would rent 7 acres with no buildings. No property tax on the acreage. |
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Post by LilyRose on Oct 1, 2015 3:51:14 GMT
Having grown up on a dairy farm, I can attest to the fact that farming can be a really tough way of life. Running a dairy can truly be 24/7 job. I remember a Christmas where my dad spend the evening in the barn with a very sick cow. He wasn't gathered around the tree with us. 30 below wind chill? Work still needs to get done...out you go. You work 7 days--no weekends off. And pretty hard to take a vacation because who milks the cows? Pay your own health insurance, and certainly no company sponsored pension or 401k match. But plenty of benefits too--he truly loved it. And I loved that I could go see my daddy anytime--no waiting until he got home from work.  |
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Post by mama2three on Oct 1, 2015 3:53:43 GMT
Oh wow! I feel for you. I can't imagine a bill that high. I saw the title and was going to chime in that we too paid our tax for the year today, both property tax and school tax, but even with the property tax increase due to our addition, we are still at only 1/10th of what you pay. Tax on farms shouldn't be that high
A farm recently sold at auction in our area. It had been an organic farm for 300 years but a tax loophole put it into the wrong category, listing it as a business instead of as a farm and they couldn't get it changed despite years of trying. Finally they were forced to sell when they owed over $1million in back taxes. A developer bought the property and Sadly, it will probably be McMansions in the not too distant future.
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Post by gale w on Oct 3, 2015 4:38:26 GMT
DH shocked me yesterday when he said he's considered quitting farming and moving away from here. I don't think he would really do it but it is so stressful and hard. Especially in the spring and fall, when he's working sun up til sun down every day. And the winter when we have to worry about livestock and water fountains freezing. And summer when we have to worry about overheated animals (especially hogs) and constant maintenance. Property tax is probably the biggest advantage to farming on shares or cash rent. We only pay on our 10 acre farm and the contents (including livestock and grain storage). Thank you!! There's a bare 7 acres for rent a few blocks away and I couldn't figure out why someone would rent 7 acres with no buildings. No property tax on the acreage. Unless someone lives or farms acreage near there, 7 acres isn't really worth renting just to avoid paying property taxes on it. It's not enough to warrant moving equipment back and forth. |
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Post by gsquaredmom on Oct 3, 2015 11:28:02 GMT
I pay 5k a year on a 50 ft by 150 ft lot that grows nothing I can sell. I am glad you have the income to pay your taxes. Your taxes are more than my husband's salary and over half of mine.
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Post by worrywart on Oct 3, 2015 13:16:31 GMT
That is crazy! Here I think there are exemptions for property being used for agricultural use or for wildlife management...which means that you pay very, very little taxes on the land. Houses and non agricultural property are taxable (school and city/county)
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? Every year?
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It appears to be an easy carefree life but in reality farming is hard work!
It'll be even crazier this year.
