Re: (erielack) Re: Taxes

[Bill Herkner <gwherk_@_earthlink.net>]

On 10/29/06 2:54 PM, "Janet & Randy Brown" <jananran_@_mymailstation.com>
wrote:

> I always thought that municipalities, not states, taxed property, and that
> they taxed the improvements to the property, i.e.: tracks.  The reason often
> given for removal of multiple tracks was "to reduce taxes."
> 
> If that is so, two questions:
> 
> 1) Is anyone paying taxres on the cutoff's land?
> 
> 2) Isn't there a tax history in Elmira which could help support renewal?
> 
> Randy Brown
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Taxes may not have been a problem on the cutoff since, when active, the cutoff
> was classified as "main stem."  Class II properties, land outside main stem.
> was the problem.
>   Bill H
> 
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No one is paying taxes on the cutoff since NJ owns it but to the extent most
of the property was "main stem" there were very little taxes anyway.  NY is
taxed differently than NJ.  I don't know what that situation is.
    Bill H


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