Why are Montgomery County property taxes processed in...Pennsylvania??

[Anonymous]

Of course it's cheaper to do it outside MoCo, especially since the County is pretty good at passing numerous anti-business regulations. That's why we see development projects for office buildings being changed into residential -- they can't find business who want to move to MoCo. Then you have the Council (when led by Elrich, now CoExec) passing $15/hour minimum wage legislation and that just makes it less enticing to business.

But there was legislation proposed a week or two ago to give county-based businesses preference, like if the local company's bid was up to 5% higher than the non-county bid, the local bid would still win. I forget the %, maybe it wasn't 5%, but you get the idea. Another example of how the county doesn't seem to care about taxpayer money. Just spend, spend, spend.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm making a property tax payment, and I see that the mailing address where to send the payments is in Philadelphia. Why doesn't the county keep the payment-processing jobs IN THE COUNTY? Wouldn't that create at least a handful of jobs here? Nice going, county government.

This is taking protectionism to the extreme. Should all furniture purchased by the MoCo government have to be made in MoCo?

Idiot.

Time for you to sign up for anger management.

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Anonymous wrote:Government issues a request for proposals. Companies have to respond showing they can meet the required contractual elements, and what they’d charge. Then the county takes the cheapest of the companies that can do the best work.

This. People are so dumb sometimes.

I wonder if they factor in the lost tax revenue on the MoCo company and on the MoCo residents that might work for the company when determining true cost. Not to mention the goodwill of creating jobs in their county and the votes it might garner. Might not be quite as dumb a question as you think. But, then again these are local government officials, so "smarts" doesn't usually enter into the equation.

Of course they look into it.... that's if a MoCo or MD-based company actually went after the bid. There are other criteria that they evaluate them on too, you know. Also believe it or not, MD/MoCo evaluation of proposals is pretty stringent. I've submitted proposals to them before (and to other local governments as well) and I can tell you that compared to others, they go to great lengths to make sure that these evaluations are unbiased.
Finally, for all we know, the company processing these payments might be based out of MD/MoCo. The mailing address where these payments are processed doesn't mean anything. It could just be that this is where they do that actual activity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Of course it's cheaper to do it outside MoCo, especially since the County is pretty good at passing numerous anti-business regulations. That's why we see development projects for office buildings being changed into residential -- they can't find business who want to move to MoCo. Then you have the Council (when led by Elrich, now CoExec) passing $15/hour minimum wage legislation and that just makes it less enticing to business.

But there was legislation proposed a week or two ago to give county-based businesses preference, like if the local company's bid was up to 5% higher than the non-county bid, the local bid would still win. I forget the %, maybe it wasn't 5%, but you get the idea. Another example of how the county doesn't seem to care about taxpayer money. Just spend, spend, spend.

The developers are proposing to change the office buildings into residential buildings because businesses now want to locate near Metro, not in some far-flung car-dependent suburban office park.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Of course it's cheaper to do it outside MoCo, especially since the County is pretty good at passing numerous anti-business regulations. That's why we see development projects for office buildings being changed into residential -- they can't find business who want to move to MoCo. Then you have the Council (when led by Elrich, now CoExec) passing $15/hour minimum wage legislation and that just makes it less enticing to business.

But there was legislation proposed a week or two ago to give county-based businesses preference, like if the local company's bid was up to 5% higher than the non-county bid, the local bid would still win. I forget the %, maybe it wasn't 5%, but you get the idea. Another example of how the county doesn't seem to care about taxpayer money. Just spend, spend, spend.

Elrich never led the Council in any way, shape, or form. There was a reason he was never Council President in 12 years...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm making a property tax payment, and I see that the mailing address where to send the payments is in Philadelphia. Why doesn't the county keep the payment-processing jobs IN THE COUNTY? Wouldn't that create at least a handful of jobs here? Nice going, county government.

You check is going to a bank lockbox on PA. The bank scans all checks and provides a file back to the county. It's likely near 100% automated.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Of course it's cheaper to do it outside MoCo, especially since the County is pretty good at passing numerous anti-business regulations. That's why we see development projects for office buildings being changed into residential -- they can't find business who want to move to MoCo. Then you have the Council (when led by Elrich, now CoExec) passing $15/hour minimum wage legislation and that just makes it less enticing to business.

But there was legislation proposed a week or two ago to give county-based businesses preference, like if the local company's bid was up to 5% higher than the non-county bid, the local bid would still win. I forget the %, maybe it wasn't 5%, but you get the idea. Another example of how the county doesn't seem to care about taxpayer money. Just spend, spend, spend.

The developers are proposing to change the office buildings into residential buildings because businesses now want to locate near Metro, not in some far-flung car-dependent suburban office park.

Other than Marriott, not a lot of businesses relocating around the Friendship Heights, Bethesda or White Flint metro stations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Of course it's cheaper to do it outside MoCo, especially since the County is pretty good at passing numerous anti-business regulations. That's why we see development projects for office buildings being changed into residential -- they can't find business who want to move to MoCo. Then you have the Council (when led by Elrich, now CoExec) passing $15/hour minimum wage legislation and that just makes it less enticing to business.

But there was legislation proposed a week or two ago to give county-based businesses preference, like if the local company's bid was up to 5% higher than the non-county bid, the local bid would still win. I forget the %, maybe it wasn't 5%, but you get the idea. Another example of how the county doesn't seem to care about taxpayer money. Just spend, spend, spend.

The developers are proposing to change the office buildings into residential buildings because businesses now want to locate near Metro, not in some far-flung car-dependent suburban office park.

Other than Marriott, not a lot of businesses relocating around the Friendship Heights, Bethesda or White Flint metro stations.

WTTG, ProShares, Enviva Partners
Leasing for the office space is coming along. D.C.’s Fox affiliate, WTTG, inked a lease for 57K SF at the Wilson as it plans to leave its offices in Tenleytown. Alternative energy company Enviva Partners is signed up for 80K SF, and ProShares, an exchange-traded fund, plans to occupy 55K SF.
Read more at: https://www.bisnow.com/washington-dc/news/neighborhood/top-3-bethesda-developments-99861?utm_source=CopyShare&utm_medium=Browser