Senate property tax rollback plan a joke!!!!

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – April 16, 2007 – A tax-protest leader told a Senate committee Friday the chamber’s bipartisan property tax reform package is too weak, while business interests and local government officials offered mixed reactions.
Republican and Democratic Senate leaders released their plan Thursday. It includes a rollback of city and county taxes to 2005-06 levels, then a two-year freeze and cap on future increases.
The plan is expected to save taxpayers $11 billion over the next five years. A competing proposal offered by House Republicans would slash taxes by more than $25 billion over the same span. Most Democrats and local government officials oppose the House GOP plan.
“The Senate plan leaves a lot to be desired, I’m sorry to say,” said Dr. David McKalip, a St. Petersburg neurosurgeon and spokesman for the Florida Taxpayers Alliance. “The rollbacks are not enough.”
McKalip told the Finance and Tax Committee the alliance is pushing for rollbacks to 2001 as included in the House GOP plan.

http://www.floridarealtors.org/NewsAndEvents/n1-041607.cfm

Realtors push for reform

More than 1,000 Realtors traveled to Tallahassee yesterday for FAR’s 2007 Great American Realtor Days’ events. In a coordinated effort with local boards and associations, FAR members started meeting with their local senators and representatives on property tax reform, affordable housing, property insurance and other housing issues. The event continues through today.
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Hernando County development news

DADE CITY - In a part of the county where new developments used to be a dime-a-dozen, another megaproject has now left the scene.
Crosswinds Florida, the local offshoot of a 36-year-old Michigan-based developer, will no longer build 500 homes proposed on 280 acres in southeast Dade City.

30 Day Sales Report

Closed sales through the Multiple Listing Service from the period between February 22nd and March 22nd totaled 2,635 for homes up to 5 million dollars. Typically, homes priced under $400,000 were the majority. This is a little over 500 more homes sold from the prior month. Pending sales were down from the previous month to 4,061.