I've been watching and paying annually property taxes in San Pedro since 1986 on several different pieces of property.I have personal experience subdividing and reselling. I've noticed; Property taxes are outrageously cheap. The Town Board does a extremely poor job of accounting and managing the collection of the tax.(no matter which party is in power) IMHO A professional accounting and management co. would solve the problem, The skills necessary to do a proper job can't be found by appointing people to be in charge from the population of the village. The system of notifying the Town Board that the subdivision of large parcels of property has taken place is faulty. Taxes are said to be unpaid on tracts that no longer exist because they are no longer coconut plantations but multi million dollar subdivisions. Hearing that lots of unpaid taxes is the problem makes me feel even worse about the poor management , the revenue lost from having an old system taxing properties for what they where ten years ago does not compare with late payments.
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