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Tallahassee, Fla:
A tax break for Florida homeowners is safe. The 1st District Court of Appeal has upheld the Save Our Homes constitutional amendment.
The amendment caps property tax increases on primary homes at 3 percent or the rate of inflation, whichever is lower.
It does not offer a tax break to non-homestead properties in Florida.
A group of Alabama residents with second homes in Florida filed suit against the amendment, arguing it discriminates against people who own property in the Sunshine State but don’t live here all the time.
A circuit court originally upheld the amendment and now the appellate court has confirmed that ruling.
Gov. Charlie Crist, who has made lower property taxes one of his main goals, applauds the ruling.
“Capping property taxes at no more than 3 percent increase per year is incredibly important to the people of our state and they need a break especially in these economic times, so I’m very pleased with that ruling,” Crist said.
“The tax burden unequally falls to non-homesteaders. So, it really is fundamentally unfair and it really disenfranchises most Florida voters and makes the political situation uninteresting to them,” Robert Weissert of Florida TaxWatch said
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Government-watchdog group Florida TaxWatch opposes the Save Our Homes amendment. Weissert says it places too much of the state’s tax burden on non-homestead properties.
The Save Our Homes amendment passed with 54 percent of the vote in 1992.
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