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[quote author="ck"]If going down to $3k per year as noted above, what was it before? Even at $3k/yr, wouldn't that still leave you with an effective tax rate of about 2% on a $600k purchase price? That still sounds high. Or am I reading this wrong that it was $3k per year before and going lower now?
Thanks in advance for any info you have. My ears perked up (with repect to Portola Springs) when I read they were reducing it --- but if still $3k, that remains a bit ticket on top of a big ticket house payment and HOA...[/quote]
MR (specially R2 and R8) will go down from 3400 to 1700, but not all new communites have R2/R8. That's about .3% for a 600k house, which means the tax rate will go from 1.8% to 1.5% for some houses having R2/R8.
If you have a tax parcel number and it contains R2 and R8, please call the above numbers to verify.
The following link can be used to search for tax in OC, just input your tax parcel number or your address:
http://tax.ocgov.com/tcweb/search_page.asp
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woops, I didn't know we were typing the same thing at the same time!