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Interesting that they're automating this now with AI - our council had their staff literally scan houses one by one on Google Earth images when the latest image
by scohesc 4y ago
Interesting that they're automating this now with AI - our council had their staff literally scan houses one by one on Google Earth images when the latest imagery came out to see if there were any new outbuildings/pools/etc. compared to the last imagery date.
Odd when you have something like 4-500,000 people living here, but I guess someone's paycheck had to be justified somehow :P
I don't understand why having a pool means your taxes go up immediately - though I've never understood the concept of a property tax anyways.
- rdtwo 4y agoIf you can afford to heat and service the pool you can be hit up for more money
- adhesive_wombat 4y ago> though I've never understood the concept of a property tax anyways. Essentially, it's a payment back to society in exchange for monopolising a piece of something that can be useful to society but (to a good approximation) can't be manufactured[1] and doesn't depreciate[2]: planetary surface area. One off value-added taxes don't capture this well as they become "cheaper" the longer you hold the land[3]. Put it another, somewhat hyperbolic, way, it's a HODLing tax, applied to the only known physical space in the universe in which humans can exist. [1]: a few polders and airports not withstanding. [2]: climate change might both create and destroy some land utility, though, which will upset quite a bit of "value" predicated on non-military the utility. [3]: this inhibits land transactions which has effects like chilling workforce mobility