[prostoalex]

> Even if you rent you are still paying the property tax implicitly via higher rents.

There's a conundrum here where higher property tax rate decreases the rental's attractiveness to potential landlords purely by biting into the cashflow, which then creates a negative impact on the property price and the base it's taxed at.

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