Taxes

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Why do people say that Md taxes are higher than Va taxes? Is it just the property taxes they are talking about?

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MD taxes are substantially higher than VA, even taking into account the annual personal property tax.

Even within MD it makes a huge difference which county you're in. When I moved from MoCo to Anne Arundel, my state taxes went down almost $9,000. Not too mention a $6,000 drop in property taxes despite moving to a much nicer home on the water.


My mother lives on a large lake in Virginia, in a rural county. Her property taxes on a house/lot worth about 1.8M are a quarter of mine for a house worth about the same.


So yes, there's a big difference.

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Anonymous wrote:MD taxes are substantially higher than VA, even taking into account the annual personal property tax.

Even within MD it makes a huge difference which county you're in. When I moved from MoCo to Anne Arundel, my state taxes went down almost $9,000. Not too mention a $6,000 drop in property taxes despite moving to a much nicer home on the water.


My mother lives on a large lake in Virginia, in a rural county. Her property taxes on a house/lot worth about 1.8M are a quarter of mine for a house worth about the same.


So yes, there's a big difference.

Gotta support all those illegals in Maryland somehow. Sadly, Virginia is trending this way also.

[Anonymous]

Montgomery just spends/wastes a lot of money.


Case in point, I live in Kensington. There's a bike path along beach drive not too far from me. The path ends at an intersection. Rather than just have the path terminate, it loops around in a 40-foot circle, for no apparent reason other than possibly complicated aesthetics. But it wastes a strip of asphalt 6 feet wide by 100 feet long, and probably costing a couple thousand bucks in materials and labor. For NO discernible reason except they could, so they did.

That's just one bike path. The county is FILLED with similar wastes.

That's why taxes are through the roof. Not because of Mexicans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Montgomery just spends/wastes a lot of money.


Case in point, I live in Kensington. There's a bike path along beach drive not too far from me. The path ends at an intersection. Rather than just have the path terminate, it loops around in a 40-foot circle, for no apparent reason other than possibly complicated aesthetics. But it wastes a strip of asphalt 6 feet wide by 100 feet long, and probably costing a couple thousand bucks in materials and labor. For NO discernible reason except they could, so they did.

That's just one bike path. The county is FILLED with similar wastes.

That's why taxes are through the roof. Not because of Mexicans.

Since that "bike path along beach drive" is in Rock Creek Park, a National Park managed by the National Park Service, that's federal money you're talking about being wasted.

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Anonymous wrote:Montgomery just spends/wastes a lot of money.


Case in point, I live in Kensington. There's a bike path along beach drive not too far from me. The path ends at an intersection. Rather than just have the path terminate, it loops around in a 40-foot circle, for no apparent reason other than possibly complicated aesthetics. But it wastes a strip of asphalt 6 feet wide by 100 feet long, and probably costing a couple thousand bucks in materials and labor. For NO discernible reason except they could, so they did.

That's just one bike path. The county is FILLED with similar wastes.

That's why taxes are through the roof. Not because of Mexicans.

Since that "bike path along beach drive" is in Rock Creek Park, a National Park managed by the National Park Service, that's federal money you're talking about being wasted.

Hey genius - Rock Creek flows through Maryland BEFORE it gets to DC and becomes a National Park. And here IN MARYLAND, it's a county-run park.

Dumbass.

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Anonymous wrote:Why do people say that Md taxes are higher than Va taxes? Is it just the property taxes they are talking about?

Virginia and MD state taxes are approximately the same. Same for FFX and MoCo real estate taxes.

VA has a 5% tangible property tax that MD does not have. MoCo and many other counties have a 2.2% (at least that's the rate I pay) income tax - on top of what is paid to the state - that VA doesn't.

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Anonymous wrote:Why do people say that Md taxes are higher than Va taxes? Is it just the property taxes they are talking about?

Virginia and MD state taxes are approximately the same. Same for FFX and MoCo real estate taxes.

VA has a 5% tangible property tax that MD does not have. MoCo and many other counties have a 2.2% (at least that's the rate I pay) income tax - on top of what is paid to the state - that VA doesn't.

I don't see a big difference between Maryland and Alexandria City taxes, which are right up there too as of FY 2018.

It's time to reconsider the benefits of Maryland Public Schools with Alexandria.