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Stress Analysis in the Design of Bicycle Infrastructure
On 2017-08-20 17:11, sms wrote:
On 8/20/2017 7:26 AM, Joerg wrote: On 2017-08-19 20:47, sms wrote: On 8/19/2017 7:37 AM, Joerg wrote: On 2017-08-18 19:17, sms wrote: [...] The People's Republic of Berkeley did something really smart, they base parcel taxes on square feet, not parcels. So a 100 unit apartment building doesn't get away with paying one parcel tax while a 100 unit condo complex pays 100 parcel taxes. That change to the the tax system passed 88% to 12%. So how much did that increase the affordability of apartments? It neither increased nor decreased the affordability, since rental costs are based on what the market will bear, not the costs to the property owner. Exactly, and when a parcel tax or whatever other tax is increased it is simply passed on to the renters - rents go up. No, that's not the way it works. It's what the market will bear, not what it costs the property owner. A property owner that paid $1 million for an apartment building charges the same rent as an owner of an identical building that paid $5 million. One just makes more money. But it's immaterial. Apartment building owners and residents should not be subsidized by owners of single family homes or condos, which is the way it is now. Apartment building owners want it both ways--they don't want to pay their fair share of property taxes or parcel taxes, and they also don't want rent control. In other words, they're fine with lobbying the government to subsidize their businesses, but not with the government limiting how much they can charge for their product. I agree, that is indeed not right. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ |
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Stress Analysis in the Design of Bicycle Infrastructure
On 2017-08-20 09:34, jbeattie wrote:
On Sunday, August 20, 2017 at 8:14:53 AM UTC-7, wrote: On Saturday, August 19, 2017 at 7:36:55 AM UTC-7, Joerg wrote: On 2017-08-18 19:17, sms wrote: [...] I was talking to a CPA yesterday, and she was explaining what is really wrong with California when it comes to small businesses. It's how expensive it is to operate as an LLC, and the dual taxation you're subjected to. The purpose of an LLC is to put a wall between the businesses assets and the business owner's personal assets. But the cost of operating as an LLC is so high in California that she advises people to just operate as a sole proprietorship and to buy a very large umbrella insurance policy to protect their personal assets, because the umbrella policy will cost a lot less than paying taxes as an LLC. Jay would know more about this than I do! That is exactly what people here are doing :-) Others go a step further, packing it up and moving the business out of state. Or they lose out against out of state businesses in the marketplace. This also evidences itself in where my clients are. A decade ago most were in California. Now most are in the Houston area. Wouldn't you think that taxation of rental properties would be better tied to rents rather than property values? When I've written the local paper that the business atmosphere is driving business out of California the responses are that business growth in California has never been higher. Yet even Elon Musk built his battery plant in Nevada. All we usually get in inflow is service-type business like it happened much in the UK. That doesn't sustain real produced value, let alone export. Property taxes are tied to rents in a way because property values for multi-family are based on return. The value is rent-driven. A beautiful building in a depressed rental market is worth less than a falling-down slum in the Bay Area. In California it is different. Property tax depends on the amount of money the owner paid for the property, plus 2% increase every year from then on. Until the property changes hands upon which the then paid purchase prices becomes the determining factor. Building a battery plant in Nevada makes sense. What's a little heavy metal in the groundwater in a place where they were lighting off nukes? Actually, apart from the regulatory landscape, its easier preventing pollution in a desert because there are not the same groundwater concerns, and dirt is cheap. California has made a decision not to attract dirty businesses. Some of these businesses, like coal export (a big issue around here) also involve unpredictable markets and employers who come and go and leave a big mess. We also have "non-dirty" business leaving. http://www.foxandhoundsdaily.com/201...ng-california/ -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ |
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