While perhaps a year ago I may have been willing to gamble my vote on an annoyance issue like this, the Supreme Court has bought the Ds years of my loyalty by knocking down Roe. It is hard to imagine something they could do at this stage that would cause me to vote R in a purple state.

Friend of mine bought a new car 3 years ago, and sold it recently for $2000 more than they bought it for, with 60,000 miles on it.

So move back to Texas already.

We've got better everything here. (except Mexican food).

It's like you all weren't familiar with Virginia before you moved there.

Anonymous wrote:An old car is a depreciating asset
FFX has done a real dumb thing

Not this year it isn’t. The price of used cars jumped by a huge amount due to the supply chain issues with new cars. And it isn’t solely a Fairfax problem.

Here are my last 5 years of payments for the same vehicles.

2022: $978
2021: $722
2020: $774
2019: $952
2018: $1013

The newer car, a 2017 small SUV, jumped from $20,525 to $26,925 in one year. Fairfax reduced that by 15% to $22,886. That would have resulted in a smaller increase if the state reimbursement didn’t also drop. So, it is a combination of issues.

An old car is a depreciating asset
FFX has done a real dumb thing

Property (car) tax went up this year because the cost of used cars soared.

Fairfax applied a 15% reduction to the NADA appraisal. That was the county level relief.

However, the car tax relief from the state dropped from 57 to 49%.

Anonymous wrote:But Yungkin promised the property tax relief: https://www.governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/news-releases/2022/march/name-930544-en.html

And Fairfax applied tax relief as promised by Youngkin

Move to MD if you can't afford the car tax. You just have to pass one inspection there then your beater can clog traffic when it breaks down.

Is scandalous the right word to use here?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Drive old cars. It's the only way to keep you taxes relatively affordable in Virginia.

That then won’t pass the state-mandated inspections.

NP. Nah. We drive 15+ year old cars. Find a good inspection place.

And just because a car is old doesn't mean it isn't maintained.

Anonymous wrote:Drive old cars. It's the only way to keep you taxes relatively affordable in Virginia.

That then won’t pass the state-mandated inspections.

I can't stand the fairfax county property tax rates. Gotta get the dems out of office.

Anonymous wrote:But Yungkin promised the property tax relief: https://www.governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/news-releases/2022/march/name-930544-en.html

“ Property taxes are collected on a county level, and each county in Virginia has its own method of assessing and collecting taxes. As a result, it's not possible to provide a single property tax rate that applies uniformly to all properties in Virginia”

Per https://www.tax-rates.org/virginia/property-tax

For those blaming Rs, note the map:

https://www.tax-rates.org/virginia/property-tax