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Originally Posted by Woodsy
Thats because I don't think its unfair at all! Certainly no more unfair than MA, ME and VT collecting an income tax from NH residents who work there. Or collecting a sales tax from NH residents who happen to purchase items there. There is no representation, and I don't see any rush by those states to correct that injustice. What about the fairness to in your own states? How many of you have purchased goods in NH just to avoid the sales tax in your own state? Even though you are required by law to report such purchases and pay the sales tax accordingly?
Whining about how you have to pay such exorbitant taxes on your second home when you don't use any town services just doesn't wash! The reason the value on your second home has skyrocketed is because many others like yourself want to be here. More demand for property, with a limited supply. This drives up the property values and subsequent taxes exponentially. Too bad. Thats the whole basis of the American economic system, supply & demand! I am sure no one complains when they sell out for that big fat check.
People who own second properties do not have any kind of vested interest in the well being of the town or city that the property is located. They only have an interest in keeping their cost of ownership as low as possible, regardless of what may be best for the other full time residents of the city or town.
Our taxation system works just fine for NH. We in NH don't have 1/2 the tax burden that our neighbors have. We have a much smaller more frugal government. If you don't like the system we as NH residents have created, move up here and vote or sell out and leave!
Woodsy
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1) No whining here. I happlily pay the tax bills on my NH property. I am saying, however, with that payment ought to be some right to representation (and for that matter the lower rate for various licenses)
2) income tax: You continue to miss the point about the represetation issue. In the case of MA, there is no 2-tiered status. residents/non-residents are taxed uniformly. Further, I do not believe there are any municipalities that grant representation with these types of taxes. Owning property in a town/city is different matter. One becomes part of the community. Your sales tax reference and whether or not one declares these on out-of-state purchases is irrelevant to this discussion
3) Speaking for myself: I absolutely have a vested interest in the town where my recreational homes are. It is pretty silly to think that people with hi-dollar assets don't care what happens in the town where they are situated!
4) NH
does have over 1/2 the tax burden the surrounding towns have, it is more like 75%. source:
http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lis...005/index.html
5) your "if you don't like...leave" comment doesn't support the basis for a reasonable defense of the status quo, and diminishes your argument. Eventually I do plan to move up and participate in Town Government.