Don’t you just love BIG, nanny state government?!
If someone increases the assessment based on what he did not see, that is a lawsuit in the making.
“All your bedrooms are belong to us.”
...but the question on whether a Michigan tax inspector can enter a home remains open.
I live in Florida so its hard for me to conceive that the residents of a state would allow this or gun registration. We have our faults but this is over the top.
Property taxes are a relic of feudalism and they exist today largely to prop up the Teachers union.
A century ago most states had a Homestead Exemption because your home was never meant to be taxed, just your productive property - most people were farmers. The feudal basis of this is clear: the parasite class merely wanted a part of your crop. Thus it was an income tax. Homestead exemptions still exist, but have been squelched in size because of the never ending government thirst for other people’s money.
Since we now have every flavor of income tax known to man - municipal, state and federal - along with excise taxes triple what they were just 40 years ago ( 9-10% now vs. 2-3% in the 60’s ), what’s the point of property taxes?
They are now simply another income stream for the Bureaucratic state to pay itself for “services” unwanted.
They can go ahead and try to invade people’s homes. All that will do is start a political movement to end the whole thing - the voters will simply put a stop to it.
Those people are probably just hiding stuff. And very guilty. Or at least terrorist TEA Party members. Anti-0bama racists.
This just confirms why there should be no personal property tax as well as income tax. Needless bureaucracy.
Make everything from sales tax.
I’ll take the higher assessment thanx.
-PJ
I remember years ago in CA I complained to the Tax Collector when we were billed for Personal Property Tax on our property tax bill. I asked how they could arbitrarily apply a tax to a value when they didn’t have any idea what was in our house. They assured me that it was safer to pick a ballpark figure than to do an actual assessment as then the amount would likely be higher as they would do an assessment of everything - even sporting equipment. I dropped my complaint.
I still wouldn’t like the way they went about it here in MI.
> In 2010, it sent all municipal tax assessors a memo.
Since when is a memo a law?
This could only happen in a police state.
I’d great them at the door with my loaded S&W and my pit bull by my side. They can come in at their own risk.
Accidents happen, ya know!
I’m not sure they can get by Smith, Wesson and me.
Reminds me of the movie, "It Runs In The Family" [sequel to the beloved "Christmas Story"] - when the tax assessor comes to the house and the family is trying to hide all of the good stuff in order to get a lower tax bill ...
Its what they do best.
Two choices, drive them out of office if possible, or move.
If you aren't going to believe what is on the card, why bother sending out the cards?
If Michigan was on my "possible place to live list" it's crossed out now.
Of course, Kelli will invoke maximum immunity, police protection and a team of government attorneys if you try to get her to sign a document that says she takes personal authority for violating your 4th Amendment rights.
But other than that, she's here to help.