Please implement properity tax

its a good idea , but maybe the tax shud be put on those owning more than 1 house? if 2 double tax.
there also need to be a way so SE can keep track of housing on alts or connected char, to make sure they also pay due tax

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Originally Posted by Ulathskullsplitter

Wait a minute. Not to derail this grand thread but how do you not pay property taxes in the real world? Different country? Here in America everyone who owns a house pays property tax. You could have your house paid off for 50 years and as soon as you miss your property tax payment the government will take your house. We are all just renting from the government.

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That's actually not true. In most states, if you miss your property tax payment (especially if you are elderly), a lien is placed against your house. You are not evicted and do not have it taken away from you. Then what happens, is upon your death and disbursement of your estate or the sale of the property, the lien must be paid off for the property transfer to occur giving the government a way to collect their money without throwing old people off their land.

Additionally, there is not federal property tax, so they definitely aren't involved. The actual laws are at your state or local level. The best states in the country for property tax rates have quite low rates:

Louisiana - 0.18%
Hawaii - 0.26%
Alabama - 0.33%
Delaware - 0.43%
West Virginia - 0.49%
South Carolina - 0.50%
Arkansas - 0.52%
Mississippi - 0.52%
New Mexico - 0.55%
Wyoming - 0.58%

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Originally Posted by Ilitsa

People like OP here need their idea privileges taken away. Horrible idea.

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everyone is entitle to there own idea, and I do see that ur a master of a FC and probably own a personal house as well, so this is the way the 1% thinks.

No, just no. Go home, your drunk.

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Originally Posted by SundayTrash

everyone is entitle to there own idea, and I do see that ur a master of a FC and probably own a personal house as well, so this is the way the 1% thinks.

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I do, and guess what, through MY hard work alone I bought my FC a small home, and through MY hard work alone, I bought myself a home in a different city-state, after reclamation. Moral of the story? Work hard. Get what you want. Don't try to take away from those of us that have put in the effort to make the money just because you didn't do so. I guarantee you wouldn't have this "idea" if you had put the work in for yourself to have been able to buy one either from another player or reclamation.

Looks to me like you have all your crafts at 50+, so why not take some time, figure out what's selling on your market, and make some gil, then buy a house off another player?

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Originally Posted by Ilitsa

I do, and guess what, through MY hard work alone I bought my FC a small home, and through MY hard work alone, I bought myself a home in a different city-state, after reclamation. Moral of the story? Work hard. Get what you want. Don't try to take away from those of us that have put in the effort to make the money just because you didn't do so. I guarantee you wouldn't have this "idea" if you had put the work in for yourself to have been able to buy one either from another player or reclamation.

Looks to me like you have all your crafts at 50+, so why not take some time, figure out what's selling on your market, and make some gil, then buy a house off another player?

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The feel is different between a low and high pop server. The house were literally all gone within less than 5 min, and ppl then are reselling it for 100+ mil for a small on PF.

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Originally Posted by SundayTrash

The feel is different between a low and high pop server. The house were literally all gone within less than 5 min, and ppl then are reselling it for 100+ mil for a small on PF.

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Before moving to Siren, I was on Balmung, and owned a medium private house there, server pop really isn't an excuse. If you want it bad enough that you think it's fair to ask for something like this, then you should want it bad enough to do whatever it took to get yourself it, without hurting the rest of us.

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Originally Posted by xXRaineXx

No, just no. Go home, your drunk.

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Heh. Implying he "has" a home...

Me and my brother did not camp by a house for 6 hours each (12 hours overall)(we now share the house) On christmas day just to be landed with a tax D:
That being said, we are never selling this house. Plus it removes so much gil from the economy. 4-5mil is gone every time someone destroys a small house on behemoth.

I don't have any crafting classes so it literally took months and months to earn enough money to buy the house, let alone decorate it. I am broke right now, I don't want no tax T^T

Besides you are already paying an irl tax for a house, the FFXIV subscription fee. If you don't update your subscription every 45 days, and enter the house, you lose the house.

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Originally Posted by Ulathskullsplitter

Wait a minute. Not to derail this grand thread but how do you not pay property taxes in the real world? Different country? Here in America everyone who owns a house pays property tax. You could have your house paid off for 50 years and as soon as you miss your property tax payment the government will take your house. We are all just renting from the government.

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I live in the UK. We have a Council Tax, which pays for local services, but that's not based on the property (directly) as everyone of working age pays it - even if you're living with parents or renting. The amount to pay is based upon the house value band but isn't a "property tax" in the way the OP wants.

With what the op is suggesting why not use the potential property tax Gill and just pay someone to relinquish their land.

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Originally Posted by FoxyAreku

Um, no. I purchased my house. PURCHASED. I didn't rent it from a landlord.

Having the house taken away after 45 days of not logging in is MORE than enough.

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Not for this, but needed to respond to this lol

uuum You will always pay property taxes IRL even if you own the house. That's how it works IRL lol :3 sorry kid.

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Originally Posted by Youkulm

Not for this, but needed to respond to this lol

uuum You will always pay property taxes IRL even if you own the house. That's how it works IRL lol :3 sorry kid.

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Bait probably, but this isn't real life we're playing here. Unlike real life, you don't have a 9-5 job in Eorzea nor bills to pay.

Come at me bro. Tack on those taxes.

The taxes will only discourage the majority of people in the game, the ones who can barely afford a small house. You'll be making housing less accessible. lol

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Originally Posted by Atoli

Why would that be the government's job in the first place? It's your house, YOU do the maintenance! That's expensive enough as it is...

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Do you not know what property taxes are for? I don't know how it is in US, but in Canada (this might be Ontario only), cities cannot collect any tax except property taxes. These taxes are then used to pay for things like roads, plumbing, electrical, etc. Stuff you use, but can't maintain yourself. Shit breaks and they have to fix it unlike in a video game.

Of course, the province (the Canadian version of a state) also gives money to the cities as well.

Edit: Bringing in real world economic systems is dumb because we have to deal with the constraints the real world gives us. This is not the case in a video game. Taxes in a video game are usually used as a means of removing money in the game economy rather than a source of income (since devs can just poof things into existence). However even as a gil sink your idea is terrible and would probably drain all the money out or cause people to be so poor no one would buy houses lol.

How about no. A rent tacked on to an already high price to even buy a house is the kind of stuff that made me avoid ever looking for a house way back in Aion. I play a game to have fun, and it isn't fun having to continuously pay money for something I already spent out my rear on.

You wanna kill housing even worse? That's how you kill housing.

Yeah, all right. I’ll pay your taxes when you buy EVERYONE PLAYING XIV's anima relic items. Sound fair? :l -eye roll-