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Does america have progressive or flat land taxes? Progressive land taxes (higher % tax of land value if you own more of it) make intuitive sense for housing aff

• toast0 6y ago
  My understanding is that most jurisdictions, but certainly California and Washington state have two types of property tax levies. 'Ad valorem' aka by value, which is a percentage of assessed value (one flat rate for all parcels, not progrssive), and per parcel taxes which is just a specific dollar amount added to each separate parcel. There's some state by state adjustments to try to benefit owner occupied properties, but the degree to which it helps varies greatly; the California owner occupied exemption saves abou $70/year in taxes (woo?). I'm not aware of progressive property taxes, but there's a lot of different jurisdictions.