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by ddkto 1089 days ago
Property taxes are usually set as a fixed amount to be collected, and the tax % is back calculated. In practice, this means that the only thing that matters is the value of a property relative to the rest of the city.
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Does the US use the same rates for all property types? At least in Canada (and in Sim City 2000…), the tax % is different for residential, commercial, industrial and often subcategorized further.
In my state it varies by town so nothing that covers the entire US.
That may be what “usually” happens but in california, which is a major commercial real estate market, we have this thing called proposition 13 which screws up everything.