Slash and eventually eliminate property taxes for vested Florida homeowners and renters. For each year beyond a year-ten residency vesting period requirement, Florida homeowners would be entitled to a cumulative 10%-point increase of their existing homestead exemption, until their adjusted exemption reaches 100%. Renters in Florida, who meet a ten-year residency vesting period requirement and who go on to purchase a Florida home, would also enjoy the same cumulative 10%-point increase of their new home's homestead exemption, until their adjusted exemption reaches 100%. Additionally, the adjusted homestead exemption shall be transferable to the homeowner's wife or children.
Source: burkettforgov.comEliminate property taxes on homesteaded primary residences. Benefit passes down to children. Completely rewrite broken property and auto insurance laws. Dismiss non-criminal traffic tickets for drivers with clean 10-year records. Eliminate unfair paid highway express lanes. Eliminate unfair tolls on public roads. Eliminate Florida’s unfair gas tax. Eliminate permit fees to repair and improve your home. Force local government to provide water and sewer at cost. Slash bloated government, wherever it is, that we don’t need – or want. Rewrite the unaffordable, broken healthcare laws. Put doctors, not government and insurance companies, in charge. Make ‘Right to Try’ laws absolute.
Source: burkettforgov.com1) For homes that can be satisfactorily fortified against hurricanes, the total cost of approved upgrades could be offset against the property’s real estate taxes. Of course, in the short run this would impact local municipalities, but have the long-term benefit of strengthening homes, improving taxable values and retaining residents and entire neighborhoods that could be displaced following a hurricane.
Source: burkettforgov.com2) For homes that are not candidates for fortification initiatives, and cannot buy affordable insurance, homeowners could be incentivized, one time, to buy a new, hurricane-proof home by providing them with an additional homestead exemption amount on their new home equal to the sale price of their existing home.
Source: burkettforgov.comSlash and eventually eliminate property taxes for residency vested Florida homeowners and renters.
Source: burkettforgov.comFor each year beyond a year-ten residency vesting period requirement, Florida homeowners would be entitled to a cumulative 10%-point increase of their existing homestead exemption, until their adjusted exemption reaches 100%.
Source: burkettforgov.comRenters in Florida, who meet the ten-year residency vesting period requirement and who go on to purchase a Florida home, would also enjoy the same cumulative 10%-point increase of their new home's homestead exemption, until their adjusted exemption reaches 100%.
Source: burkettforgov.comAdditionally and critically, the adjusted homestead exemption shall be transferable to the homeowner's wife or children.
Source: burkettforgov.com1) Immediately reduce the Florida Constitutional maximum property tax rate by 50%.
Source: burkettforgov.com7) Last but not least, the law must be changed to allow homesteaded property owners the right to pass down properties to wives and children, without an increase in assessed value - which would otherwise make a family home instantly unaffordable and ensure that Florida families will all be involuntarily displaced.
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