It is true you are taxed for a view one way or another. But I think why people got so upset is Avitar spells it out. For instance in Tuftonboro, if you are on the lake you pay $600,000. If you have more than 100 feet you pay extra, and it goes in ranges-something like 100-200, 200-300, etc. Then if you are in Winter Harbor you pay an extra 10% on that 600,000. If you have a beach, you pay an extra 25%. If you have a view, you pay an extra 10%. You get the idea. When Avitar did this for the (former) Gov. Thompson family they sued over the view tax. I don't know what is happening with this. I thought they won, but have not heard anything about it in a while. I assume it will be appealed.
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