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>Can you explain why this would be a moving tax?

>Obvious, property taxes only apply to the fraction of the year that you own a place. Are you worried about the overlapping period where you have the house on the market but haven't sold it yet?

The proposal was to create a property tax that phases out once the owner has lived there for X period of time. Naturally, every time you sell and move you then reset this clock, so you'd pay the property tax only if you keep moving. The most monetarily rational strategy is to buy and hold forever if at all possible.

In short, the only way to trigger this tax is to move.



I think the OP meant ten months per year, or in general, a fixed fraction of the period that the property tax is assessed over.




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