The Tax Man Is Watching Your Home From Above


Published on May 28, 2015 by Bloomberg Business

May 28 — A growing trend among municipalities is to hire private aerial photography companies to take high resolution photos of local houses. Through analytic software, a small number of property tax assessors can pinpoint changes across many homes and adjust taxes accordingly, usually raising substantial amounts of money. Bloomberg’s Suzanne Woolley explains how it works.

3 thoughts on “The Tax Man Is Watching Your Home From Above

  1. Which is why subterranean construction is becoming the preferred method of dodging the control freaks. Out of sight and out of their minds, which they’re already out of.

  2. In Maryland, Governor Martin O’Malley’s ‘Rain Tax’ (as well as taxes in general) contributed to the cause of the Democrats’ losses in the last election.

    Maryland Governor Taxes Rain:
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2013/04/10/maryland-governor-taxes-rain/

    ‘Rain Tax’ To Soak Maryland Taxpayers:
    http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/15111-rain-tax-to-soak-maryland-taxpayers

    BTW, Martin O’Malley Seeks 2016 Presidential Election:
    http://2016.presidential-candidates.org/OMalley/

    The new aerial photography tactics will probably be exploited by other entities, foreign and domestic.

    One More FYI:
    Freedom Advocates will cease publication of Agenda21 News as of today, however will leave the page up for about another month. Beam over and check out their ‘News Categories’ before the site is gone [IMHO, some of the documents should be posted to ‘The Way Back Machine Site’]:
    http://agenda21news.com

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