Are you paying your share of property taxes?

Are you paying your share of property taxes?

That’s a loaded question isn’t it. I suppose it depends on the definition of “your share.”

Anyway the Institute for Wisconsin’s Future believes there are certain groups that aren’t paying their share of property taxes and they are coming after you if you are in one of these groups.

 * Huge health-care systems that are non-profit

* Real-estate speculators who abuse agricultural assessment

 * Owners of billboards assessed at a fraction of their value

*  High-income seniors in tax-exempt housing

Legal loopholes allow certain groups of people to reduce/eliminate their property taxes. That is a fact.

My question is …  if someone does take advantage of those legal loopholes, does that make them guilty of not paying their share of taxes?

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