Property Tax [View all]
Note: It took me awhile to actually find this forum. I wasn't expecting it to be classified as a "Support Forum" - I thought, "Issue? no.... Alliance? No... um, Culture?"
Anyway... I guess I'm technically a senior at age 55, but it's the people 62 and up that I'm concerned with here. Because, I've been doing their taxes this year. And, just in my one small office that has so far handled perhaps 20 senior tax returns this year, I have had at least three who are still paying property taxes on their homes - and it's their biggest expense, here in Seattle where those taxes are often $7,000 or more. Meanwhile they are on a fixed income - Social Security is more than half of it, and somehow they have been completely unaware that due to their age and income, they qualify for an exemption from those taxes. In all three cases, they've been eligible for several years for the exemption - in the most extreme case, she was in her eighties.
Why is this such an apparent secret? Is there no outreach occurring? What could be done to better inform them, and why is it not already being done?
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