Taxes in MD versus VA

[Anonymous]

If you are renting then why not move? It sounds like you don't have a lot of roots in MD, and no real transaction costs to a move, so the economics would make it worthwhile. We are over $1m in income and I am a lifelong MD resident and love living in MoCo, but our kids are out of school and we have flexibility on work location so a move to North Arlington or McLean would make financial sense for us and depending on what our 2018 taxes end up looking like we will consider it.

[Anonymous]

Why don't you or your account just run your taxes as if you lived in VA. Then you would actually have an answer you could use to make this rather large decision

...... or you could post on DCUM and have people randomly opine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
- No more bag tax in VA (MoCo charges 5 cents per plastic bag)

Seriously? You still use plastic bags, and enough of them that the amount of money in bag taxes feels worth commenting on? Just invest $10 or less in some canvas bags and stop messing up the environment for the rest of us, for goodness sakes. This should really not be an issue.

[Anonymous]

OP here.

Has anyone heard of Maryland state legislature addressing the loss of SALT taxes as they done in NY or CA? This MOCO local tax (3.2%) accounts for an extra $25k for me and my wife per yr. I do like living in montgomery county but this is a pretty hefty bite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

Has anyone heard of Maryland state legislature addressing the loss of SALT taxes as they done in NY or CA? This MOCO local tax (3.2%) accounts for an extra $25k for me and my wife per yr. I do like living in montgomery county but this is a pretty hefty bite.

Not a whole lot. This was the only thing I could find.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-hogan-tax-bill-20180305-story.html#

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

Has anyone heard of Maryland state legislature addressing the loss of SALT taxes as they done in NY or CA? This MOCO local tax (3.2%) accounts for an extra $25k for me and my wife per yr. I do like living in montgomery county but this is a pretty hefty bite.

Most people do not believe the NY and CA "fixes" will actually work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

Has anyone heard of Maryland state legislature addressing the loss of SALT taxes as they done in NY or CA? This MOCO local tax (3.2%) accounts for an extra $25k for me and my wife per yr. I do like living in montgomery county but this is a pretty hefty bite.

Most people do not believe the NY and CA "fixes" will actually work.

This. They’re, legally speaking, a joke.

If you even have to raise this question, OP, you clearly should do it. I live in MD because I think Virginia is shit and would rather pay my taxes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
- No more bag tax in VA (MoCo charges 5 cents per plastic bag)

Seriously? You still use plastic bags, and enough of them that the amount of money in bag taxes feels worth commenting on? Just invest $10 or less in some canvas bags and stop messing up the environment for the rest of us, for goodness sakes. This should really not be an issue.

NP, I rented in MoCo and then bought in NoVA. The bag tax was a factor, as were MoCo/MD's higher taxes. Reusable bags are gross; do you do wash them every time you transport meat? And while I would have been willing to pay 5 cents/bag for plastic bags, the supermarkets by my rental didn't even put them out, so I'd have to go to the one non-self checkout line or try to flag down a worker to get them. Also, shenanigans like asking me before the groceries were bagged how many I wanted.

I wish policymakers would weigh whatever marginal benefit to the environment is realized by banning bags in a few leftist enclaves versus the fact that plastic bags are really useful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
- No more bag tax in VA (MoCo charges 5 cents per plastic bag)

Seriously? You still use plastic bags, and enough of them that the amount of money in bag taxes feels worth commenting on? Just invest $10 or less in some canvas bags and stop messing up the environment for the rest of us, for goodness sakes. This should really not be an issue.

NP, I rented in MoCo and then bought in NoVA. The bag tax was a factor, as were MoCo/MD's higher taxes. Reusable bags are gross; do you do wash them every time you transport meat? And while I would have been willing to pay 5 cents/bag for plastic bags, the supermarkets by my rental didn't even put them out, so I'd have to go to the one non-self checkout line or try to flag down a worker to get them. Also, shenanigans like asking me before the groceries were bagged how many I wanted.

I wish policymakers would weigh whatever marginal benefit to the environment is realized by banning bags in a few leftist enclaves versus the fact that plastic bags are really useful.

This is all nonsense. I'm a DC resident (where there is also a bag tax) and your reasoning is dense. If you don't want meat touching your reusable bag, you walk over to the produce department, get a plastic produce bag, then walk over to the meat and wrap it up. Simple, done. No charge.

People who whine about the bag tax come across as selfish morons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
- No more bag tax in VA (MoCo charges 5 cents per plastic bag)

Seriously? You still use plastic bags, and enough of them that the amount of money in bag taxes feels worth commenting on? Just invest $10 or less in some canvas bags and stop messing up the environment for the rest of us, for goodness sakes. This should really not be an issue.

NP, I rented in MoCo and then bought in NoVA. The bag tax was a factor, as were MoCo/MD's higher taxes. Reusable bags are gross; do you do wash them every time you transport meat? And while I would have been willing to pay 5 cents/bag for plastic bags, the supermarkets by my rental didn't even put them out, so I'd have to go to the one non-self checkout line or try to flag down a worker to get them. Also, shenanigans like asking me before the groceries were bagged how many I wanted.

I wish policymakers would weigh whatever marginal benefit to the environment is realized by banning bags in a few leftist enclaves versus the fact that plastic bags are really useful.

This is all nonsense. I'm a DC resident (where there is also a bag tax) and your reasoning is dense. If you don't want meat touching your reusable bag, you walk over to the produce department, get a plastic produce bag, then walk over to the meat and wrap it up. Simple, done. No charge.

People who whine about the bag tax come across as selfish morons.

+1 I will add that if you care about a "clean" environment, contamination in your food, etc.. you shouldn't want a R leader, certainly not Trump. PP wants to make sure that raw meat isn't contaminating his other food, but doesn't care that coal mine run off is contaminating other people's drinking supply, or that Pruitt allowed a pesticide that causes neurological disorders to be used in our food supply. PP probably only buys organic produce.

Selfish moron, indeed.