When my cousins in Maine received $850 checks from the state’s COVID relief enabled surplus, I wondered, what will New Hampshire do with their surplus? As we have seen, the N.H. GOP has taken the state’s surplus and pork-barreled property tax abatement for real estate owners into a $500 million dollar spending bill. This is unfair to all N.H. residents and here’s why.
Okay, let’s start with the flawed notion of “pork-barreled property tax abatement”. How in the world is giving a break to those that fund the lion’s share of municipal spending a bad thing? Hello???…Is this thing on?
Of course STRs had to be mentioned. Afterall, aren’t they the scapegoats for every conceived problem in NH? Give me a break. And for the umpteenth time…an STR is a residential use, not a commercial use. It’s use by vacationers is exactly the same as how it is used by long term renters and non-STR owners. Stop banging that broken drum.
And speaking of out-of-state owners…did I mention they pay the lion’s share of property taxes?…Mr. Robinson’s assertion that the abatement makes “the real estate voting class more secure” is somewhat twisted since none of the out-of-state owners are afforded the right to vote. Not even on issues that directly affect them, like STR bans or unreasonable regulations. It occurs to me that a tax abatement is the very least the state should do for these property-tax-paying, non-municipal-service-using, room-and-meals-tax-paying homeowners.
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Owners of STRs pay the same tax rate as local residents without putting kids into the school system. I would argue they should get more of a refund.
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Okay, let’s start with the flawed notion of “pork-barreled property tax abatement”. How in the world is giving a break to those that fund the lion’s share of municipal spending a bad thing? Hello???…Is this thing on?
Of course STRs had to be mentioned. Afterall, aren’t they the scapegoats for every conceived problem in NH? Give me a break. And for the umpteenth time…an STR is a residential use, not a commercial use. It’s use by vacationers is exactly the same as how it is used by long term renters and non-STR owners. Stop banging that broken drum.
And speaking of out-of-state owners…did I mention they pay the lion’s share of property taxes?…Mr. Robinson’s assertion that the abatement makes “the real estate voting class more secure” is somewhat twisted since none of the out-of-state owners are afforded the right to vote. Not even on issues that directly affect them, like STR bans or unreasonable regulations. It occurs to me that a tax abatement is the very least the state should do for these property-tax-paying, non-municipal-service-using, room-and-meals-tax-paying homeowners.
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