Hb1655fn - Dam Funding
 

New bill out of committee with an ought to pass recommendation.
100$ annual fee for waterfront property 50$ annual fee for water access property on lakes impounded by state owned dams. To be collected by towns and remitted to the dam fund.

https://gc.nh.gov//bill_Status/billi...2190&inflect=2

Just more state revenue grab. Not sure it is well written, as section 1 VI calls for interest at 8% per year on taxes...does not mention the feee. But this bill calls the $100 a fee. Wonder if that interest payment would stand up in court against a fee when it is not stated it is against the fee, but as a tax. Wonder if they will issue a sticker and charge an extra fee for that? Wonder how this will all work as people deduct taxes for federal income tax purposes.....most usually use their checks $'s paid to get the amounts. Will this now be tax fraud if you don't go back and parse out the "fee"...or is it a "tax".

I wonder if that includes boat slips owned as waterfront property?

so many people also use the lake from day boaters to fisherman to tourists on the Mount... and yet they tag the waterfront owners with yet another fee...

Boating fees and mooring fees for the dam fund are under other bills.

They either need to raise the $8 million or breach the dams by lowering them to the lowest level possible before removal.

This is that "want"/"need" issue. So removing it from general taxation is going to be an ongoing discussion.