For now:
Here in Florida we
go to the tax office to renew your car tags. We can renew our tags online with
a credit card. To show I AM OLD: I THOUGHT I HAD RENEWED MY TAGS. I kept
looking for them in the mail. Since they did not show up in 3 weeks I started
checking back. The money never came out of my CC account.
Come to find
out, I never hit ‘SEND’, or Go or what ever, so my tags were NEVER ordered. So, to the
tag office. I renewed two tags, car and a utility trailer. When I went out to the Utility trailer to put
the little sticker on the old tag, IT WAS NOT THERE, NO TAG!! It had been lost or stolen, most likely it
was just lost. So back to the tax office. The replacement tag cost twice what I
had already paid. OUCH!!!
BUT with all
my fussing, I have dealt with at least 4 state DMVs, NC is one of the worst and
Florida is the best I have ever encountered. They seem to bend over backwards
to get you in and out. NC seems to try to find something wrong to send you back
and the procedure is longer making service much more involved and slow.
All that said,
referring to taxes. I just saw a complaint article about property taxes in
Florida. The highest taxes are in the
Miami area, an average of $253 a month. I looked again,
realizing we are paying more than that in NC in Gaston county. About $3000 a
year. WE pay $3800 a year in Gaston County, NC
OUCH, our taxes are higher than Miami, FL!!!
Our governor says we will never own our homes;
we will always RENT from the state, I guess that is about correct.
It is tax time. ARE YOU READY? At least one thing going for us in Florida, we have no state income tax, that counts.
Nite Shipslog
PS: Taxes are a pain but they are necessary to
pay for roads, police, etc.
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8 comments:
I am very thankful to live in Florida, where even with the taxes seeming to go higher, they are still better than many other states, where you also have state income tax and higher sales tax AND property taxes. We need to count our blessings here in Florida and pray that some democrat doesn't take over our governor's office and ruin everything!!
Over here the Financial Year for Tax purposes ends on 4 April each year - i.e. your tax return covers 5 April 2025 to 4 April 2026.
God bless.
Taxes...will there be new taxes on odd stuff in the future? Anyway, I hope your Christmas and New Year's eve went well. Grandchildren visit? That makes Christmas great. Our gr=kids are scattered. Two girls (we held them from the day they were born) are now 19 and 21in college. the other 5 are in Illinois and Switzerland.
Amen to that
Oh yeah tax time coming around again soon. Comes around fast.
Can you believe Kelly borrowed her dad's car. A policewoman pulled her over - at 7 am in the morning in the dark. She said that the tag plate did not match the registration. We have been driving it that way for years. Have no idea how it happened, but we have to get into the tag office ourselves.
OUCH!!!, indeed! You know, if it wasn't for my son and family living here, I might be tempted to move back to Florida.
Two things in life are certain: Death and taxes!
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