I'd guess about US$125,000...but that has no bearing on the tax bill. It is the same as all the vacant lots nearby.

How do they place value then for taxation ?

We get taxed on both the land and the structure in MA. We have a law that the taxes can not be raised more than 21/2% without and override. BUT they can reset the valuation on your property with no limit and funny how that doesnt seem to go down. Our schools take up the majority of the town budget 5 elementary, 1 middle, 1 high school and 1 tech. The other issue here is that we have a college and a private school that don't pay any taxes but use our resources ie fire, police, ambulance. The children of the employees that live on these campuses send their children to the public schools. The university promised money to the town every year to pay for the municipalities, then pulled it after one year. Thankfully the state has not made any cuts to the school budgets yet, that will tell you how much fat is at the state level. Taxes are getting out of control everywhere sales tax just went up, the "sin" taxes are as high as 60% (cigarettes, liquor and whatnot).

we live in a townhome on a postage stamp size lot in PA and pay about 4K a yr.

Someone just commented to me that this thread suffers from an enormous hijack.

Appropriate, me thinks, for one titled "air fare". And upon further thought the two subjects do have a commonality - sky HIGH rates!!

Book thru Cancun, 2 planes, 2 buses, another plane or water taxi.

Seems more and more AC visitors are taking that route.

Our properties are evaluated every 3 years and the tax is based on the millrate. Money for the education system is shared within the Province. When I said we support 4 systems I meant in every district we must support 4 school boards who in turn provide education in English in public and catholic schools and in French in public and catholic schools (some schools having less than 25 kids)in every city, town and most villages. A 'gift' left for us from the British via the BNA Act (when we were a colony) and enshrined in our Constitution by Pierre Trudeau.

I agree klc. This started with airfares being so high for BZE and then questioning why which lead to taxes and the tax structure and suggestions of how to change things.

back to the airfare sale, and my claim to buy if there was one...

...see you in April, SP.

YW, J