Re: Someone Has Finally Listened - Southern Univeristy Coming to Ruston in 2015
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sportdawg
Louisiana exempts the 1st $75,000 - so only 60,400 of that median value is actually taxed.
Yes, family lives in Louisiana. And I believe that's why a lot the old timers loved Huey P Long. I can see why though, during that era there was hardly enough money for even the basics much less taxes
Re: Someone Has Finally Listened - Southern Univeristy Coming to Ruston in 2015
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Dwayne From Minden
Next time I see Brad, probably in October, I will ask him the exact breakdown
Ouachita has a 1% sales tax in the un-incorporated areas of the parish that is solely dedicated for upkeep of parish roads and bridges - prior to that there was a property tax dedicated to such
The 1% generates about $7,000,000 annually for public works (which btw is greater than my entire budget (all funds) here in Claiborne)
Re: Someone Has Finally Listened - Southern Univeristy Coming to Ruston in 2015
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Originally Posted by
Dwayne From Minden
Next time I see Brad, probably in October, I will ask him the exact breakdown
Thanks, but I have the breakdown on my tax form. I realize that we pay/have almost nothing for roads here. We patch unless we get funding for a special project.
Re: Someone Has Finally Listened - Southern Univeristy Coming to Ruston in 2015
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Originally Posted by
Dwayne From Minden
Ouachita has a 1% sales tax in the un-incorporated areas of the parish that is solely dedicated for upkeep of parish roads and bridges - prior to that there was a property tax dedicated to such
The 1% generates about $7,000,000 annually for public works (which btw is greater than my entire budget (all funds) here in Claiborne)
$7M won't touch what we need to do in un-incorporated areas. Like I said, we are able to patch.
Re: Someone Has Finally Listened - Southern Univeristy Coming to Ruston in 2015
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maddawg
$7M won't touch what we need to do in un-incorporated areas. Like I said, we are able to patch.
How many miles are in your Parish System?
I have 833? miles (one way) in mine with 2/3 of them being paved (chip & seal) -
Our budget is about $2.1 million for the Road Fund - which presently enables us to chip and seal about 30 miles of road annually along with routine maintenance -
The big difference is that we only employ 22 people (including Administration) compared to over 65 for the OPPJ
If I had $7 million in sales tax monies for just roads I would be in hog heaven
Re: Someone Has Finally Listened - Southern Univeristy Coming to Ruston in 2015
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Dwayne From Minden
Thank you -
Most folks in LA don't want to hear this -
You can't have adequate public services unless they are funded at the local level
BRAGGING on having one of the lowest property tax rates is not good for anyone involved and those parishes that do are usually sucking hind teat and have horrible public schools -
Now I'm very conservative at heart and in principle, but IF people vote a tax on themselves set the millage at the rate and leave it there from day one...
Don't roll it back and starve your services and punish your constituents with poor schools, roads, water, fire and police protection
That's true and that's another difference between Texas and Louisiana. 1.5% of 3% property tax goes to fund the ISD. The better the school is, the higher the property tax.
Re: Someone Has Finally Listened - Southern Univeristy Coming to Ruston in 2015
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longdawgview
That's true and that's another difference between Texas and Louisiana. 1.5% of 3% property tax goes to fund the ISD. The better the school is, the higher the property tax.
We are paying almost 3% here in Ouachita Parish (West Side).
Re: Someone Has Finally Listened - Southern Univeristy Coming to Ruston in 2015
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maddawg
We are paying almost 3% here in Ouachita Parish (West Side).
Not if your only paying 1,300 for 250k house
Re: Someone Has Finally Listened - Southern Univeristy Coming to Ruston in 2015
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Originally Posted by
longdawgview
Not if your only paying 1,300 for 250k house
Almost 3% of my total property tax goes to schools is what I should have said.
The total rate for schools on my tax bill is .0292.
Remember we have a homestead exemption of $75K along a VERY reduced rate of appraisal.
Re: Someone Has Finally Listened - Southern Univeristy Coming to Ruston in 2015
On houses above the exemption - you are usually paying less than 1.0% in total taxes (schools, roads, libraries etal) in rural North LA
Its usually closer to 0.5% -
Re: Someone Has Finally Listened - Southern Univeristy Coming to Ruston in 2015
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Originally Posted by
maddawg
Almost 3% of my total property tax goes to schools is what I should have said.
The total rate for schools on my tax bill is .0292.
Remember we have a homestead exemption of $75K along a VERY reduced rate of appraisal.
Gotcha
Just for comparison even with the Louisiana homestead exemption, the local property tax 2.89 (some are higher and some are less) here in Texas would be
250-75=175k * .0164 = $2,870 for ISD
= 175k * .0125 = $2,187 for city, county, all the rest
$5,057 total annual property tax
Re: Someone Has Finally Listened - Southern Univeristy Coming to Ruston in 2015
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maddawg
Things work in Texas. They have it figured out. Less liberal corruption maybe? More toll roads? More public transportation?
Louisiana Act 513 of 1976. Took all of the authority away from the DOTD Chief Engineer (protected by Civil Service) and created political appointed positions in charge of finance and operations. Nine out of ten apparent poor decisions, or lack of doing anything at all, is based on the political climate du jour. If it is unpopular or controversial for anyone...it isn't getting done.
Re: Someone Has Finally Listened - Southern Univeristy Coming to Ruston in 2015
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Originally Posted by
maddawg
Almost 3% of my total property tax goes to schools is what I should have said.
The total rate for schools on my tax bill is .0292.
Remember we have a homestead exemption of $75K along a VERY reduced rate of appraisal.
Reduced rate of appraisal? So your 250k house is appraised at?
Re: Someone Has Finally Listened - Southern Univeristy Coming to Ruston in 2015
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DoubleDDawg
Reduced rate of appraisal? So your 250k house is appraised at?
Like most others in this state, I'm not paying taxes on the "loan value". Ask anybody running for office if they would consider lowering the homestead exemption and see how fast they find another conversation to engage in.
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