Potential Tax Hike?

Blue Pig · 05-30-2011, 09:41 PM

Read an interesting article this afternoon and I thought I'd share it with you all. It has me concerned for a number of reasons, most of which should be blantently obvious.

Bizer has unoffically set the number of islands on the Lake at 365. Yet others have claimed that nearly 270 of those island are unhabitable and therefor ought to be discounted. This controversy and debate has been around for ages yet never seemed to matter until now. Just last month, the National Geospatial Agency declared that the island count officially sits at 259. Over 100 islands were essentially wiped off the map.

Now here are my two main concerns:
1) Discrediting over 100 islands is a slap in the face to this great Lake. With such rich history and a storied past, erasing these islands is essentially erasing the great legacy this Lake has created.

2) The NH "View Tax" relies heavily on waterfrontage. The 2006 bill uses a formula that takes into account the percentage of waterfront a house has. I'm not 100% sure of all the details but it something like you're waterfrontage divided by the total waterfrontage available. A little known fact about this formula is that it counts islands. With the number of islands being cut now considerably, so does the total number of waterfrontage on the lake. In turn, the percentage of homeowner waterfrontage will sky rocket resulting in a higher tax.

Now I'm not sure if anything has been proposed yet in Concord, but one would imagine that given our states enourmous deficit, those slimey lawmakers are fully aware of this oppertunity to raise our taxes.

Does anyone else have any insight on this or any ideas as to how we can stop it?

05-30-2011, 09:41 PM	#1
Blue Pig Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 14 Thanks: 5 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Potential Tax Hike? Read an interesting article this afternoon and I thought I'd share it with you all. It has me concerned for a number of reasons, most of which should be blantently obvious. Bizer has unoffically set the number of islands on the Lake at 365. Yet others have claimed that nearly 270 of those island are unhabitable and therefor ought to be discounted. This controversy and debate has been around for ages yet never seemed to matter until now. Just last month, the National Geospatial Agency declared that the island count officially sits at 259. Over 100 islands were essentially wiped off the map. Now here are my two main concerns: 1) Discrediting over 100 islands is a slap in the face to this great Lake. With such rich history and a storied past, erasing these islands is essentially erasing the great legacy this Lake has created. 2) The NH "View Tax" relies heavily on waterfrontage. The 2006 bill uses a formula that takes into account the percentage of waterfront a house has. I'm not 100% sure of all the details but it something like you're waterfrontage divided by the total waterfrontage available. A little known fact about this formula is that it counts islands. With the number of islands being cut now considerably, so does the total number of waterfrontage on the lake. In turn, the percentage of homeowner waterfrontage will sky rocket resulting in a higher tax. Now I'm not sure if anything has been proposed yet in Concord, but one would imagine that given our states enourmous deficit, those slimey lawmakers are fully aware of this oppertunity to raise our taxes. Does anyone else have any insight on this or any ideas as to how we can stop it?