Now, that one is baaaaad
A new audit shows NJ tax officials don't property monitor or enforce rules that give property tax breaks to farmers. At least they were meant to help farmers. Fact is all you need is five acres acres and $500 of "farm income" which could be a few Christmas trees for former Sen. Karcher. The audit found a $15.05 tax bill for 7.26 acres that had 1 -- that's not a typo, one -- sheep. The bar is so low all manner of folks can claim to be farmers. One town was said to need 12 years just to catch up. Richard Nieuwenhuis, president of the New Jersey Farm Bureau, said the audit shows that government isn't catching abusers who threaten the program for legitimate farmers. "The audit shows it's not how well you farm the land, it's how well you farm the government,'' said the Sierra Club's Jeff Tittel. Treasury spokesman Tom Vincz says the overall program hasn't been review in 20 years because of overburdened tax assessors. OK, go ahead and laugh out loud.
Labels: farmlands assessment, Karcher, Sierra Club, Treasury
posted by Bob Ingle at 6:11 AM
19 Comments:
I've heard even the GoldDome is classified as farmland. I guess there must be a lot of cows and bulls there because every year we get to harvest a new crop of bull$41t.
I'm going to get a can of Shinola and demand my 40 acres and a mule; figure now's my best chance.
SHOCKING!
Of course the GoldDome is classified as farmland.
They go way beyond one sheep, there are 121 PIGS there.
There is another way to get out of paying your fair amount of taxes.
In Hudson Counry (Hooboken in particular)many of the new multi-million dollar waterfront condos received tax abatements.
So Governor Corzine bought his place and his property taxes are capped at $4,400 per year for 30 years.
He pays no school or county taxes in his bill. What an irony. Therefore the diference is picked up by the "hard working citizens" in the county.
And people wonder why Hooboken is a Abbott School District ? It's because many of the Hobooken millionaires do not pay their fair share of taxes.
bikespinning
Check on Tax Assessor Ed Kerwin to see how overburdened, oops I mean overpaid he is.
STOP IT ! you can't keep finding these little inconvenient truths about Corzine ....Do you really want to scare Obama away ?
When do we get to see the e-mails? Jon says they are personal, Carla says the are union negotitations and I say let us see the e-mails and decide for ourselves.
Anon 12:30
Fuggeddaboudit! That ship has sailed. Corzine will have his stooge Codey say something pithy, like:
"There's nothing to see, we're moving on."
Corzine was out there campaigning for Hillary! Do you really think Obama wants him? We are stuck with him and mark my words, the Democratic Machine will re-elect him just like PA re-elected Murtha!
Do you think Corzine realizes that the best way to stop people and business fleeing the state ,would be to make the rest of the country just as unappealing as living and doing business here .What better way to accomplish this than becoming Sec'y Treasury
I've often been amazed at how long it takes legal matters to be resolved. These Corzine e-mails have been going on for over a year....or is it two?
Our legal system needs it's own stimulus package. Appeals should takes weeks at most, but in order to cover for their own they drag these things on and on. Some people forget, others just plain die of old age. The system is so broken and we still elect the same slime expecting things to get better? How low will we allow this Democracy to sink? At some point there may not be enough left to salvage.
TB
Hey! I grow grapes and tomatoes on my 80' by 110' piece of farm land and my taxes are almost $6,000 annually!! Where's the justice!
TB
If you really want to know how this all comes out:
Read Gibbon
South Jersey Transportation Authority has over 500 employees but if you try to find out if they have job openings, you can't cause they don't publish them. They will give you an employment application on their website, but if you actually want to know what job to apply for, you can't. I guess its like royalty, you have to have a relative already there or you can't get in the club.
Anon 7:21
"Justice" is a word that winners give to losers. "Winners" in this state are defined as "politically connected and/or entitled special interests, feeding off the remains left by trough-swilling career politicians.."
Evidently, that doesn't include you, Louie Loser from Loserville.
Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee go to DC and the new President..........please....................................................................................................go............................please........................Go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm pretty sure that tax assessors are one of the groups that hold all those multi-jobs. I know my town's assessor hold 3 jobs. I guess that's where the so-called overburden arises from.
Richard Nieuwenhuis, president of the New Jersey Farm Bureau, said the audit shows that government isn't catching abusers who threaten the program for legitimate farmers.
Darn straight! Only the big rich farms should be getting handouts from the government. Nieuwenhuis is the one who every year lobbies to make the farm bill bigger.
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