Home » Forums » Daily Paul Liberty Forum

Town in Texas with no property tax

Submitted by theone77 on Mon, 12/22/2008 - 23:16
in
0 votes

I have heard some people say, you cannot truly own land in the U.S., because when you account for property tax, its like you are only renting property even if you think you own it, because if you don't pay your property tax, you have your land taken away from you.. But, without property tax, can you really own your land?
I found this article on yahoo news. According to this article, there is a town in Texas called Stafford with no property tax. Is this the one and only town in the U.S. where you can truly own land without having to worry about having it taken away from you if you don't pay the property tax? Here is the link

http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/10-great-low-tax-places-to...

»

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.

Stafford, the city,

Submitted by sistagirl86 on Mon, 12/22/2008 - 23:27.

may have voted to get rid of their property taxes.....but you can bet there's still a school district, hospital district, and county collecting property taxes. There may well be other entities as well that are collecting those property taxes.

All that being said, I'm kinda surprised to find that out about Stafford...I'll do a little research and see how that came about. Would love to find a way to get rid of some of our property taxes so that we no longer have to "rent" the land that we already "own" outright.

Stafford

Submitted by freeyourmind on Sat, 11/21/2009 - 01:09.

Indeed, according to Wikipedia Stafford did away with it's city property taxes in 1995. However it does levy property tax for county and school services. I have not been able to find a truly property tax free city at all.

What's interesting is the Wisconsin's state constitution allows for alloidal tax free land ownership, but of course, they violate their constitution.
________________________________________

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ~Thomas Paine

—

________________________________________

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ~Thomas Paine

Hi, thanks for the reply.

Submitted by theone77 on Tue, 12/23/2008 - 22:42.

Hi, thanks for the reply. Let me know what you find out when you are done with your research. Hope you will post back here with your findings.

theone77, you may find the

Submitted by Samuel Howell Jr. on Mon, 12/22/2008 - 23:19.

theone77, you may find the article at the following link interesting: http://teamlaw.org/land.htm