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- Fact: Property owners with new homes completed today will pay higher taxes than an owner of a similar existing home and site.
- Fact: Prospective new home buyers, already preparing to pay more property taxes than owners of existing homes, must also pay an impact fee almost three times the current amount if approved.
- Fact: Impact fees are collected within certain districts within the county, and must be used for specific infrastructure needs within 7 years from when collected.
- Fact: Impact fees don’t pay for the maintenance and upkeep of roads, parks, public buildings, etc. They can’t by law. Other taxes like the gas tax, sales tax and property taxes must pay for that.
- Myth: Builders pay impact fees.If you want to build a home or building in this county, you pay the fees. Your builder simply collects and holds your funds until it’s time that they are paid to county government.
- Myth: Impact Fees are only paid by new residents; those creating impact on our infrastructure. Impact fees are paid by anyone choosing to build a new home or building, and existing residents are not exempt. Purchasers of your existing home however, are exempt.
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