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An expensive Porsche parks on Academy all year bearing Vermont plates. Good neighbors pay their fair share. The rest of the community makes up the difference with higher taxes.
An expensive Porsche parks on Academy all year bearing Vermont plates. Good neighbors pay their fair share. The rest of the community makes up the difference with higher taxes.
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T (Guest)
Steve (Registered User)
Anonymous (Guest)
anon (Guest)
anonymous,
you are required to register your car in the city of new haven and pay property taxes even if you are a graduate student (there is, however, flexibility if the person were an undergraduate). you do not have to change the plates if you so choose, but to me, it sounds like tax evasion if you don't.
you are required to register your car in the city of new haven and pay property if you are only living here for a year or so.
thems the rules. and on an expensive car like this, that's a lot of property tax pushed to the rest of us.
http://www.ct.gov/dmv/cwp/view.asp?a=810&q=245080
http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/TrafficParking/residentialzones.asp
Pedro Soto (Registered User)
wooster (Guest)
Falleaves (Registered User)
I may be wrong, and please someone correct me of I am, but I'm pretty sure I've seen that car being driven by the guy who lives in the old Italian consulate on Academy and Court with his wife and two young kids.
In any case, the city seems to be quite adept of tracking down property tax offenders. Maybe they'll address it soon.
pay to New Haven (Guest)
wooster (Guest)
Mike (Guest)
TC (Guest)
Guillo Tine (Guest)
From the New Haven Register:
"According to the Southington tax assessor’s office, O’Brien has two vehicles, a Harley-Davidson motorcycle and a boat trailer, registered to his house on Moore Hill Drive in Southington. His 2003 Ford F-150 is assessed for $6,420, his 1999 Ford Explorer for $3,060 and a 1980 boat trailer for $300. His 2004 Harley-Davidson motorcycle, with license plate that says “GO EZ,” is assessed for $6,520. With Southington’s tax rate of 24.02 mills, O’Brien’s tax bill comes to about $391. If those same vehicles were registered in New Haven and had the same assessed values, his tax bill would be about $715. New Haven’s tax rate of 43.9 mills, is almost double that of Southington."
I don't see why anyone in New Haven should follow any of the laws, as the people who right the laws, and enforce the laws apparently don't have to abide by the laws. Laws are only for the little people. Works the same way all over the world.
http://tinyurl.com/6affdv5
C. Jordan (Guest)
TC (Guest)
And I think not paying taxes is a problem. Maybe C. Jordan should move to the woods and live off the land!
C. Jordan (Guest)
That would be the very definition of the word 'snitch', TC. What else would it mean? And though I'd love to have it, the Porsche is not mine. So I guess that's why *I* don't pay the taxes on the car. And as far as moving to the woods and living off the land - ha! Listen, anyone who stays here long enough will have to pay the tax man in every way possible. When Porsche guy needs to register his vehicle, or get a sticker, or something, he'll have to pay. Plus I know for a fact that the police troll down here looking for reasons to collect fines anyway.
I understand that New Haven needs the tax revenue for schools and repairs and all the things that make the city run. But everywhere charges taxes. Including Vermont. And before you go snitching to the police, consider that some people's lives aren't exactly like yours. I just got out of the Marine Corps. I had California tags in God knows how many states and municipalities, all the while paying taxes to San Diego. The law allows for that.
In Cuba, citizens spy on one another and report suspected subversion to the local chapter of the Communist Party. They are organized in every city, and called the local Committees for the Defense of the Revolution. It is a police state. But, I hear they are selling houses now. Maybe you should look into one, TC.
Pedro Soto (Registered User)
Steve (Registered User)
TC (Guest)
Chris (Registered User)
Chris (Registered User)
TC (Guest)
Chris (Registered User)
TC (Guest)
Pinkie (Guest)
I do not understand how O'Brien, the tax assessor got away with not paying his taxes here. He should have been fired. DeStefano was not doing his job when he gave him a pass. What about our aldermen? They should have been on this and should have done something about it. Now I understand that O'Brien was allowed to retire from the city of New Haven and I doubt he retired without the benefits he does not deserve. We should be up in arms over this kind of politics. We need to hold the people we elect accountable for not looking out for the citizens who elect them. Is anyone else interested in seeing justice?
jon (Guest)
Aggie (Guest)
It's unconscionable that a good citizen would stiff his neighbors with paying the tax that he's purposely not paying.
jon (Guest)
Susan (Guest)
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