From: vze8f3tq@verizon.net (v)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers misc.consumers.house
Subject: Re: Please explain (appraisal fee question)
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:20:14 GMT

On 21 Jul 2004 14:28:47 -0600, someone wrote:

>But this reminds me of an idea I had sometime back for settling the
>whole problem.  The county sets an appraisal on your land.  If you
>think it's too high, you tell the county to buy it for that figure.
>Presto, no more disputes.  Or you could do it the other way around:
>every year the county sends you a form where you say how much your
>property is worth.  If they disagree, they have the right to buy it at
>that price.
>
This is NOT any new idea.  It has floated around in taxation
literature for decades.  I think Sun Yat Sen proposed this for the
Republic of China before Mao, and he didn't think of it either.

OK class, can anyone see the problems?  Because there are many.

-v.