Pete Sepp Quotes (16 Quotes)

To appeal your assessment you will need to do some research and possibly hire an appraiser, but you do not need a lawyer. The appeal process is set up for individuals. It is not a court of law. You can determine whether you have a case in the space of an afternoon, ... And your chances for success are pretty good I'd say as much as 50 percent.

I'm sure that state and local officials, given enough time, will come up with a sky-is-falling study saying that if they're not allowed to tax this, they'll lose a trillion dollars a year.

You can determine whether you have a case in the space of an afternoon. Your chances for success are pretty good.

No spending reduction is easy, otherwise they would have been done a long time ago.

Obviously, many homeowners expected an increase due to higher property values. But many homeowners have had serious sticker shock.

We would view this as a missed opportunity to have a wider debate on the wisdom of these restrictions that are driving up costs for taxpayers.

If House and Senate leaders fail to establish fiscal discipline on the (emergency) spending bill, they will probably have lost their last, best chance at restoring Congress' credibility on deficit spending issues in this election year.

Drivers already pay roughly 30 billion a year in federal gasoline taxes that ought to be enough to at least give them a decent federal Interstate highway system with maintenance costs.

Revenue departments have many, many more sweeping powers than any other agency or private collections firm would have under fair debt collection laws. So now what you'll have is revenue agents who are used to using those broad powers going after people who owe court fines or student loans. Some people might think this is great, but if you start unleashing the power of the government on those people, they might actually begin to chafe at such practices. I don't think it's a good idea.

The Alternative Minimum Tax represents the single biggest threat to the wallets of tens of millions of middle-class taxpayers in 2006, yet Congress could not even agree to extend temporary safeguards from this stealth tax for another year.

Obviously we need to start considering limits on this sort of taxation.

What homeowners often don't know or realize is that this process is a subjective one. Essentially, your assessment is one person's opinion about the value of your house.

This is the perfect opportunity for Congress to demonstrate its newfound, post-Katrina concern to keep the deficit in check.

Is the money really necessary to fund some of these projects, and is the money really going to communities in need On both scores, the answer is often no. Thirty years and 100 billion is enough of a test to say this program is a disaster. Pull the plug.

If it doesn't meet the technical term of earmark, it would probably meet the public idea of one.

That would be one of the most radical departures in tax history, It could start us down a very dangerous path.