Property tax

Pirate wrote:

Groover wrote:

Ralph Cramden wrote:
No matter where you reside you're going to pay it one way or another. Here in PA there is no property tax on RV,s or vehicles, just sales tax on the front end. We do enjoy however one of the highest, if not the highest, fuel taxes in the nation.

If you don't like it move somewhere else, you may save a little, you may not. It's the price you pay for having roads to move your RV on, public parks with campgrounds of which most are not self sufficient and depend on general fund dollars, and other infrastructure.

I find your high fuel tax to be ironic because my experience has been that PA has the worst roads of anywhere that I have been. Meanwhile, in my home state of TN we some of the lowest fuel taxes and I belive the best roads of anywhere I go. I admit that I have not been to PA in over 10 years. I hope that roads have gotten better for you there.

While I am here and back to the op's question, TN does not have property tax on vehicles, just a 7.5% sales tax and in my county 30$/year for any private vehicle larger than a motorcycle. Some counties have a "wheel tax" which tacks on an extra $25 per vehicle. We also don't have income tax except for interest and dividends and are phasing out the death tax.

PA roads still suck and are the worse I have driven on too. Property taxes and the worse I have seen too. For what I pay in 1400 (per year) in taxes down in TN, equivalent in PA would probably be close to 11 or 12K per year.

Where would they be 11K or 12K? The cities of Pittsburgh or Philadelphia or the counties they are in or surrounding? Possibly before posting you should no what your talking about. My property taxes including school tax in SW PA away from metropolitan areas run $2200 per year on $135K of property value. As far as the roads comparing TN to PA is Apple's to Oranges. You have little in the way of freeze thaw cycles and little need for salt and other road treatment chemicals.