Property Tax Reform That Works For Everyone

Rhode Island Gets Honorable Taxation

Property Tax
Are you paying more than your fair share?

The goal of the property tax is to provide funds to pay for the tax levy.

The property tax is better at this than any other form of taxation. The tax levy is always funded once the tax rate is calculated.

In addition, a successful tax policy must ensure a fair distribution of the tax burden.

This means that the taxes people pay should reflect the budget needs of their town, e.g. if a town eliminated tax increases, property owners should not expect higher tax bills.

Fair also means that a person who buys a $1 million dollar home should pay a fair tax on a million dollar home. To ensure this, we revalue every three years, since without revaluation new owners are taxed on older assessments.

But with revaluation, existing owners' property taxes reflect the housing market and not the tax levy.

So we have a dilemma because we can't revalue and not revalue in the same year.

A video explanation.

One solution is to use a "Property Owners Tax", a tax based on the prior year's tax bill, and adjusted enough to fund the tax levy.

In the case of a new owner who has no prior tax bill, the tax is based on the Market Value just as it is currently. This tax then becomes the prior tax the following year.

With the R.I.G.H.T plan, property taxes will be:

always consistent with and determined by local spending
always fair to new owners, not just every third year.
limited just as the tax levy is limited (S 3050).

We must assure fair and rational taxes for all property owners. See how unfair it is now using real tax data from real towns.

Contact us to arrange for a short slide presentation for your group of friends, neighbors or organization, that fully explains the problem and what we can do to fix it.

We, the undersigned, respectfully request that the proposals offered by R.I.G.H.T. be used as a model to stimulate legislative discussion, debate and ultimately to restore fairness in property tax procedures.

Kimberly Aguiar
Carmen Baker
Jim Baker
Korinne Barnes
Diane Barzaghi
Robert A. Benson, Jr
Richard Bee
Judith Bitting
Alice Blair
William F Bonneau
Allan Brockman
Kathleen S. Brown
Andrie Butler
David Butler
Kathy Carniaux
Bob Carniaux
Steve Cevoli
Kathy Cevoli
Lance W. Chappell
Howard Cohen
William Connelly
Heath Cooper
David Darlington
Debra Davis
Hilarie Davis
Laura Davis
Joseph T. DeAlteris
Sandra A. DeAlteris
L&F DeBoer
Bradley Dracott
Arlene Fall
Victor P. Fasolino
Elizabeth Finneran
Tom Fitzgerald
Eugene Fry
David Gagnier
Darlene Godin
Donna Tocco-Greenaway
William J. Greenaway
Michael Griffin
Vida-Wynne Griffin
Scott J. Grzych
G.M. Hadley
Nancy Harrington
Dale Harrington
Katherine Harrop
Robert Hutchison
Ann Jones
Joanne Lamora
Bruce Larson
Carol Larson
George W. Lavoie
Michele Leavitt
John Leventhal
Rep. John Loughlin II
Mark Lucas
Kiersten Marek
Linc Materna
Nicolette Mathews
John Maxwell
Gerald Maxwell
Mary Maxwell
Stephen McKendall
Kelly McGovern
Shawn McGowan
Anthony Micheletti
Virginia Micheletti
Dee Michelson
Sanford Miller
Barbara Montecalvo
Thomas Mowry
Bill Mudge
Pam Neal
Carl Neal
Edwin Nicholson
Gregg O'Neill
Charles Ostiguy
Yvonne Parker
Anne Pascucci
John Pascucci
Raymond Rivet
Raymond Schleicher
Ronda Schuster
Suren Semonian
Tom Sgouros
Erin Sharaf
Barry Sharaf
Bill Sharp
Tamara Sharp
Shirley Sheehan
John Sivo Jr.
Marjorie A.Sivo
Anthony M.Sivo
Derek A.Sivo
Mike Smith
Paul Smith
Amy N. Sonder
Hilda M. Souza
Richard A. Souza
Eileen Spillane
Wendy C. Sturn
David Sullivan
John Sweeney
Lisa Tener
Nicholas Tiernan
Gary W. Trott
Ellen Waxman
Judy Waxman
Harvey Waxman
Holly R. Wiesendanger
Bernhard Weiss
Charles Weiss
Maria Weiss
Robert Wilson
Michael Wood

Know someone hurt by soaring property taxes? We'd love to talk to them. Contact us:
R.I.G.H.T

INSANITY: using the same solutions to a problem and expecting different results.

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