Moultonborough Latest Tax Assessments

[woodynh]

Guess I should consider myself lucky. I own some property off the water and it's assesment is definately significanty lower. My main residence is on the water and I am almost positive the value went down on that also a fair amount but would have to look at last years tax bill to know how much.

Maybe it helped that my wife was home when the assesor came and was able to explain her version of how our home compared to others with lower tax rates in the area.

[townsde]

The increase / adjustment in property taxes is just the result. The real cause is that the town continues to increase its budget and spending and therefore must get the additional money from us. I would like to see spending reduced and efficiency steps added such that we would not have to continue to spend more and more each year.

[Argie's Wife]

You can look up any property tax assessment in Moultonborough online HERE

1. Click on the link, above.
2. Select New Hampshire
3. Select Moultonborough
4. Enter the property address - and you can even just type in the name of a street and get results.

Hope this helps...

[Yosemite Sam]

There is a good article in this weeks "The Meredith News" that talks about how Waterfront owners are fuming over assessment hikes.

Here it is: The Meredith News...Front page and page A6

[The Real BigGuy]

I have also heard that Tuftonboro will increase waterfront assessments by an average of 24% while reducing inland assessments by an average of 14%.

To be honest, I am hardly surprised as this seems to go along with the trend in NH to shift responsibility for financing state and local projects to out-of-staters (primarily the owners of waterfront property). Better to tax those who have no vote than those who do!

[Sue Doe-Nym]

Originally Posted by townsde

The increase / adjustment in property taxes is just the result. The real cause is that the town continues to increase its budget and spending and therefore must get the additional money from us. I would like to see spending reduced and efficiency steps added such that we would not have to continue to spend more and more each year.

Please keep in mind that the issue is the assessements, NOT the tax rate. Vision Appraisal has the ability to screw up the former while the BOS handles the latter. Does anyone know why Vision no longer does Wolfeboro or Tuftonboro?

[townsde]

Originally Posted by Sue Doe-Nym

Please keep in mind that the issue is the assessements, NOT the tax rate. Vision Appraisal has the ability to screw up the former while the BOS handles the latter. Does anyone know why Vision no longer does Wolfeboro or Tuftonboro?

No, I really think the issue is the SPENDING. If we did not have the amount of spending then we would not have to worry about taxes going up.

Local Government, State, and Federal all have to rein in the spending and control their budgets. At the current rate of spending who knows how we will ever finance it.

[woodynh]

I am guessing these opinions about spending too much are coming from people that don't actually live in the town. I have absolutely no complaints about the way Moultonboro spends their money. They are much more conservative then other towns around us. That is not to say people don't try to get things voted because they see other towns wasting money but it rarely happens.

I don't see us trying to build or vote in huge school budgets or try to get new schools built. The town has to have tax money for services for full time residents. Go look at the schools and equipment in them. Very, very modest at best.

Please if you have a second home I can understand you want the lowest rate possible because you don't use the services but some of us are full times residents and do need a modest amount of services. Remember why you bought your second home in Moultonboro for the low tax rate and it has stayed low for many years.

If you have a problem with the assesments that is one issue but I don't see why anybody should be complaining about how much money Moultonboro spends.

Also remember Moultonboro is one of the few if not only town to spend money on taking care of Milfoil so waterfront property owners values don't decrease and the lake can be more enjoyable when you are up here using it in the summer. That is tax dollars at work for us lakefront owners.

[VitaBene]

Woody- thank you, I agree.

[Irrigation Guy]

Originally Posted by Sue Doe-Nym

Please keep in mind that the issue is the assessements, NOT the tax rate. Vision Appraisal has the ability to screw up the former while the BOS handles the latter. Does anyone know why Vision no longer does Wolfeboro or Tuftonboro?

The two go hand in hand. The local tax rate comes directly from the assessments and the budget.