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— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt) August 7, 2022

A letter I found to myself

I found a letter to myself,

or I suppose to anyone who might stumble onto it.

It is dated in the future,

how strange I did that.

guess I did it that way so I could cool off.

Oh I am cool, alright.

here it is,

more perhaps to follow...

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

To Whom it May Concern,

Regarding Property Taxes on a 48+10 acre property with homestead

located in Monkton, Vermont, 

where family settlers relocated to

over a hundred years ago.

In 2009, the Town of Monkton attempted to sell a tax lien on our property.

This would have made someone else own our property.

Our property taxes were less than one year late

In the greatest depression we have suffered.

We ended up having to pay 12 thousand dollars that year plus ads, legal costs and penalties and interest. Oh yes, and humiliation and shame at so many people knowing or thinking they know our business.

I am a woman landowner. The Town of Monkton never notified me.

They thought my husband, whose Dad just died should tell me the bad news.

I have been verbally attacked in the town hall by a town official.

No one believes or cares.

When I raised questions of how they selected our property 

they themselves said only certain ones were selected 

but that is because they decided that.

When I asked for how they contacted me they said they didn’t have to.

They all voted together except one, abstention. Not one person in eleven felt I should have been notified. Not one person in eleven thought 

There was anything wrong with trying to sell our property in less than a year property tax delinquent. Even though that may have caused our bank to foreclose. And take more away.

I cannot waste any more of my finite life fighting these people.

The next victim I pray, will be a stronger soul, not battling MS, not afraid to death of courtrooms.

The next victim, I pray will enter the town office will say, “I am proud to be a flatlander! I was born in a city! I was a Tiger in high school, a champion of the debate team! Aggressive pushy lawyer, your worst nightmare to avenge Mary!”

Are Vermont Delinquent Property Tax Procedures Uniform? Fair? Constitutional?

some weeks i cannot go a step farther without trying again, to reform some injustice, to right a wrong, a heaviness in my heart i feel

as someone may fall victim to a tax sale...anxiety triggers my memories,

so i wrote this last monday and emailed it,

meg

To: Selectboard of Monkton, Vermont,

From: Mary Gerdt

Pardon me for sending a string of emails

but within this group of emails is my argument for Monkton Delinquent Property Tax Reform.

These sales are not structured as to a specific date each year.

For instance, our property was targeted at 9 months.

I have never received information I asked for in 2007 like how was I contacted. ( I was not).

When I read the minutes, there is very little info there. Anything that goes in the pay to view newspaper should be in the online minutes.

I never saw my properties were for sale. I was never noticed as a female co- landowner.

I have never been successful at attempting to get the Monkton Selectboard to change the policy, to make it kinder, fairer. John Phillips told me the policy could not be changed.

I question the constitutionality of delinquent tax sales.

Some towns have None. Hinesburg is one.

The reason I bring this up is I feel like these tax sales are too quick, hostile and in our case,

creates a sense of fear.

Our certified card to prove we sent the taxes to the town was returned unsigned, unstamped.

Whether you as a selectboard choose to listen to me or not, I am compelled to speak up again, as I have done since this town tried to take my property.

Having a test at the hospital a tech told me about my neighbor Matera who lost his property to a sale.

A selectman bought it. Not even a ripple on the beaver pond.

Sincerely,

Mary Gerdt,

Monkton, Vermont

---

From: Gerdt, Mary
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 1:48 PM
To: 'David Sharpe'
Subject: RE: I left you a message about property tax penalties and reform

Thank you for responding and for trying to change the laws.

I feel the way the law is written and carried out is unconstitutional.

There is no one for me to complain to.

There is no board that I can speak to.

The town has a mostly male board of abatement that denied all of my protests.

This is the way it always has been.

John Phillips told me the rules will not change.

There is so much more to this particular situation which is why I stated blogging.

People wanted what I and my husband own.

I want to see the constitution followed. Due process, right to abatement offered before sale.

I want to see consequences to the town when they do not follow this.

I want my grandchildren to own land without encumbrances like fees, interests and penalties. Oh yes, and fear someone will take it.

The taxes are too high and are not equalized across different towns.

The townspeople or town lawyer should not be the ones deciding whose property is sold.

No property should be sold at all.

How my life would have been different had Rod Burritt knocked on my door and said, Mary, the taxes are late, are you OK?

Instead, I discovered a month afterwards, that my husband was forced to take an early withdrawal to pay taxes, penalties, etc under duress from an account I had earmarked for my inevitable disability so our mortgage would be paid if I cannot work.

That is when we had to take out another $5,000 or so to pay the next year.

The treasurer made a snotty comment about it was from an annuity account.

As if we could pay but just were refusing.

We pay our way and have suffered shame and hardships.

Thanks for listening.

Mary Gerdt

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From: David Sharpe [mailto:dsharpe@leg.state.vt.us]
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 12:26 PM
To: Gerdt, Mary
Subject: Re: I left you a message about property tax penalties and reform

Hi Mary,

Thank you for your note, I am very sympathetic with your situation. In fact, I have co-sponsored legislation to reduce the amount that a community could impose for a penalty, that bill did not get out of committee will not pass this year.

If you add together the 8% penalty and the 1.5% interest per month a taxpayer could pay as much as 23% additional tax in the first year, not to mention all the fees and expense if the property goes to tax sale. It is WAY TOO HIGH!

The legislature did respond to the concern I and others put forth to allow communities to set a rate lower than 8%, unfortunately few have. I would suggest you get a petition or other pressure to the Monkton selectboard to put it on the ballot for next town meeting.

Regards,

Dave

Representative Dave Sharpe
1209 Meehan Road
Bristol, Vermont 05443
dsharpe@leg.state.vt.us
home - 802-453-2754
cell - 802-989-6427

>>> "Gerdt, Mary" 3/29/2011 8:53 AM >>>

Hello Dave,

I am at work and read your synopsis in the Monkton paper.

Please consider this another plea to reform the delinquent property tax laws.

We were the victim of a close encounter tax sale after being 9 months late paying statewide locally administered property taxes to Monkton.

I was never notified as the woman landowner. My husband sheltered me from this mean spirited move by the town of Monkton.

We owed $6500 for 1 year and had to pay 15% to the town’s attorney ($1,000), 8 % to the tax collector ($500) who hates us, interest and paid for the add I have never seen.

Our property was nearly sold 1 month before the next annual taxes of $6500 came due.

We came up with the money to keep our poor 4^th generation family farm.

We go without, cannot fix our house or improve our property. We both struggle with getting older, health issues and less money.

Much more on my blog which is easy to find. Search for my name.

Alternately, if you feel I am hysterical or otherwise contrary to your ideals,

Just ignore.

My fight is as strong as the day I found out my property worth $300,000 was nearly sold to the highest bidder, my name was published in the shame section of the paper which I do not read, others knew my property would be sold and I had no idea.

Everyone wants to blame my husband. I love him and understand he was just trying to protect me as a good husband would.

He paid one day before the sale.

What if we were gay? Who would the town have told? The town said they were OK just telling the husband of 2 landowners/taxpayers.

I want to see the whole law reviewed. The attorney decided which properties would be sold based on value.

Percentages of values have become inflated with the growth of taxes.

Back to work at my day job, I want to impress you with my feelings of frustration.

I do not know for how long, but we are living in Vermont one more year since we paid the taxes again in November.

Is that what my grandchildren will say?

Mary Gerdt  

Monkton Chronicles

Monkton Chronicles

"all the news that fits, we print." alfred e. newman

@vermontbiz looks like everybody wants a piuece of my heart... pic.twitter.com/yx6uyosaji
— Mary Gerdt (@marygerdt) December 2, 2014

Well, in the dim light of a Vermont winter's day,
I can see my editor really needs to pull it up a bit...

Next thing you know,
(after struggling to scrape money from my nest egg savings
that I will pay taxes on,
on top of taxes)

Then the town of Monkton, Vermont posts minutes from the selectboard
Where they are changing the delinquent tax policy...or something...actually it is not clear
what, why or when they sprung this baby on us...nice warning to voters...

Immediately I went into Lois Lane mode...
searching memory banks...searching...searching...
Hey, the head of the selectboard told me,
"You Cannot Change the delinquent tax policy"...
 Guess that meant I cannot, but some other schmuck can....

So if you are huddled
In a cold and drafty room,
and you're wondering what to eat next,
and you forget to use the broom,
and your body doesn't smell so good,
The tax bill on the stand,
The bread bag, oh so empty,
They have the upper hand,
2 cents here, 4 cents there,
You got to pay the man.

All you feel is cold despair,
You huddle with cats,
With blankets, socks and underwear,
Cover all the windows there,
Keep out the cold night air.
You smell the hate of others,
Blowing in the Wind,
Hate or Greed, they smell the same,
All will do you in.

Grow calluses
or skin of brass
don't let them
pull you into 
The Morass.

Sparring, #fracking and Nerve endings

Sparring

Back and forth I go,
editorial arguments,
woven with social media,
like burrs,
snarling up,
the ties that bind kept entering my mind...

Addison Independent's reporter Zach has renewed my interests.
Commenters using what seems like alias personae are verbally sparring with me and the neighbor, about that pipeline Canadians want to slip in thru the neighbor's garden.

It hit a nerve again today
Property Rights
It screamed.

So I thought I would post one letter,
out of all the letters that I wrote
where I attempted to show the cold cruelty of the so called select board-5 elected people who make some decisions,
and sometimes go too far.
Impossible to fight,
I chose to bring to light what is possible in a sleepy town.
People can be cruel, mean, without even drawing a weapon.

Really an FYI, readers,
My nerves need a virtual poultice.
yes, I did all I could do to try to reform this corrupt sick system...

Hello Governor Shumlin,

On October 13, 2009, our 48 acre farm plus 10 acre swamp property was nearly sold by the Town of Monkton to satisfy about $6,000 for being late 9 months paying taxes.

This was the first year we qualified for property tax adjustment by income.

We had always paid taxes on time for 17 years. This property has been in Fred's family since the late 1800's.

We incurred shame, fees, penalties, costs including percentages of the tax to a lawyer and tax collector.

We were never offered abatement or other arrangements.

I never had any idea this happened until a month later when we paid the next year's tax: $5,000.

The day before the tax sale, Fred paid them from an account we established in case I cannot work.

I have MS. Fred was out of work and had been a self employed electrician.

I have been struggling to get resolution. I applied for abatement but could not face certain people in town.

I argued because of many factors. These are on my blog.

I lost.

I still want to see what they did to notify us they were selling our property and why after only 9 months late.

The selectboard is not cooperating in seeing this. I cannot afford an atty. I am sorry the bill died in the committee to look at penalties like the $500 we had to pay the tax collector (8%). The town cannot even tell me what they did to inform me or my husband. I have asked for over 1 year.

The selectboard does what they want and they stand behind this practice. God help the next people

who are 9 months late paying taxes. Nobody else cares.

Thanks for listening. I think you are doing a good job.

Please look at property taxes, they are robbing from my family of bread.

and off topic, Please let Yankee stay open with conditions. Talk with Meredith Angwin. Please do not emotion rule your decisions on this. Rely on science.

Mary E. Gerdt
alvarita1@aol.com
traveloguefortheuniverse.blogspot.com

The Journey of Understanding Vermont Property Tax Snarling Beast

On my Journey of Understanding

the Snarling beast called

Vermont Property taxes...

the digger helped me out yesterday...>

http://vtdigger.org/2013/11/13/property-tax-exemptions-remain-changes-loom/#comment-77141

 

i found out

how small i was,

a woman,

in this hostile town

that thought they owned what i fought so hard to get

and

keep.

(near victim of property tax sale 2007)

 

 

 

reminding me of that day,

the stretcher being wheeled out.

whose hand was i holding

no one told me.

i guessed it was dad.

and his mom.

 

 

Late news..

Something woke me up...surfing twitter w/kindle,
play a game, check FB, email.
Then I saw the emergence of the deal to sell back property to a man who lost his family's legacy to a delinquent tax lien sale by the town.
It was a feel good rare kind of never happens fairy tale thing,
if it were not for things like lawyering, which I guess had to be a part of it.
So I looked for clever tweets to re-tweet thus saving my tired mind from being creative.
Found not a one worth retweet. all pretty snotty, snarky,empty.
newspapers make money on tax sales..legal notices, gossip, shame and icky stuff,
It would be up to me to set the record straight...

I am proud of Governor Shumlin for giving this man back his property.
Not a political move, nothing really to gain.
It was cool. I am surprised. The lawyers need to find new work.
No long drawn out scandalous court case.
Now, time for Vermont Property Tax Reform...if not now, when...

 

Proud of Governor #Shumlin for selling property back to tax sale victim.Now time 4 VT Prop tax Reform.Stop sales of tax liens!
— Mary Gerdt (@marygerdt) August 14, 2013

Tiger's Tale

Tiger's Tale

Vermont Tiger is an ally in my fight for Truth and Clarity.
In this case,
How does the Vermont Property Tax really work??
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shoot, I did not want to zone out more readers who could care less about what i pay.
some of us vermonters started out somewhere else anyway. not that illinois is so special, land of lincoln, like kin he was. kindred anyway, born poor, wanted equality for all.
So if you just came to see a pretty picture, view and move on, I am really good with that.
that was one reason for my blogging anyway, like national geographic in my backyard.
in turn, i follow others who keep me seeing the global perspective.
vermont does have exceptional beauty and feeling.

here it is

Lincoln, Vermont
 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Now for more about how VT property taxes work...if you dare...

http://www.vermonttiger.com/content/2012/03/how-does-act-60-work-.html

#5

Dreaming of Springtime in Vermont

if you do not like political stuff, enjoy the photo above and stop reading right now :-)

#5

Will be the last in this series.
The beginning of my age of true disillusionment.
Can already hear some of you sighing, the politically adverse segment of the population
how i wish i could be there somedays.
These are my feelings about town government & powers they have.
My true life experience in 2009 of nearly losing my properties.
What did not work for me to regain some sense of dignity or righteousness.
The brochure online about rights of taxpayers really doesn't cover the half of it.
In truth, towns can be more powerful than banks.
This has happened before and it could happen to you.
This was a letter I sent the town when I found out what they did.

fyi afterword...i have never received any of this information. meg 3.25.13



Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:57:50 EST
Subject: To the selectboard
To: admin@monktonvt.com

Pleases deliver To the Selectboard of the Town of Monkton,

From Mary E. Gerdt, 40 Cemetery Rd, Monkton (mailing address North Ferrisburg, VT).

I requested some information from David Rath, your attorney.

I have not received it.

I now request it from the Selectboard.

Please send me the following by US Mail

addressed to Mary E. Gerdt, 40 Cemetery Rd, No. Ferrisburg, VT 05473

I want to have all the documents the Town of Monkton has related to the tax sale of real estate property I own.

I want copies of the actual minutes where my property was described and this was discussed.

I want copies of the accounting of the Town Tax Collector, records of his phone calls, attempts to contact me or my husband.

I want copies of receipts of any mail sent to me or my husband.

I want you to tell me how many people are presently in arrears in taxes.

I want to know how you decided to choose us.

I want to know who had abatement of taxes.

I want a copy of what went into the newspaper which I never saw.

I do not feel comfortable at the town hall anymore.

My emails about minutes all summer apparently were in vain since when you finally decided to post them, all I saw was "tax sale". My suggestion to you is to be more open about this process to the actual owners. I wonder how many of my neighbors knew and I had no idea.

I am serious that I want all these documents. Do not ignore this request.

Mary Gerdt

 

Fives....lots of Fives....& Virtual Neighborhood...

Fives, Dang a lot of fives came together today...

me 55, born in 58, 5th child, on the 25th, mom born in 25...it seemed like a lot,

Or was I just looking for meanings and there was all this coincidence?

anyway, we are now part of a "virtual neighborhood". It is a listserv of town residents. When I close my eyes I still see the houses of the neighbors of my youth,The Pfeiffers, The Stahlhuts, The Jennings', The Kuethes', Braziers, and many more...

Now with a new found outlet to speak to my neighbors I have not know for the 30 years I have lived in the neighborhood, have been wanting to connect about a few issues I find imperative. So I wrote the entry below and thought I would log it in my blog as a time marker. Hoping for change but not counting on the change being what I want. Just something better.

If I get no response, OK, I will stick with sharing feelings with my worldwide web of bloggers, friends, musicians, artists, photographers, activists, and fellow poets. If I get a response, perhaps I will finally feel I have arrived at a neighborhood. If positive, a kindred neighborhood. If negative, well, sorry, I am entitled to feel however I feel.

If something here offends you, just push the I/o button in the o direction.

mary e. gerdt,

over the hill of 55,

55 trips around the sun.

God do I miss Mom at times like this...

 

Pipelines, Notices to Residents & Delinquent Tax Collection

Mary Gerdt – Cemetery Rd

I fully support everything Jane and Nate Palmer say...and I hope other Monkton residents will stand there too. It is unfortunate the black suited lawyers and lobbyists seem to have all the power, eh? This proposed pipeline (anybody see a map yet?), is being crammed down our throats by a Canadian conglomerate to feed a rich college town and a paper mill That Already Gets Gas!!!

They want a 2 way RACEWAY...anybody get the visual?

Meanwhile the Selectboard seems to passively yawn which leads me to believe they have blessed this.

So why do we pay all the conservation taxes and taxpayers pay to preserve land if we are just going to become, let's face it, Transmission Fields...WRONG, all Wrong!

Why not criminal charges or sanction for what looked like deceptive practices against our great and vulnerable neighbors.

It makes me sick to think the town would let them stomp people like them.

Next, have you experienced not being noticed by the town for a meeting or a application/permit that you had a right to know/be at? Let's change that.

Next, have you been the victim of a delinquent tax sale in Monkton where there are questions about the proper procedure or even, is this like other towns do it? If enough people connected who are as disgruntled as I have been, perhaps we could really change this Draconian, 6 months late, we sell your property thing.

I was told it would never change. Don't do well with never.

Next, I will be publishing all the letters I have sent the town on my blog. It can be a test of, well, what works, what doesn't. Is anyone as frustrated as I am? Or, Mary you are all wet! Ok. I am a big girl (no comments). I can take criticism. Likewise, if others feel like I do, the front porch is truly helping me feel part of a neighborhood and have hope we can connect even though you may be a couple hills over. I hope if there is common sense, ethical reform possible, I hope we can recreate the kind of town Everyone wants to be a part of. Not just the Yellers, the Bullys, the This, the That. The Pipeline people? Ran roughshod over this town. Ripe for the picking I would say. Can the Selectboard choose to engage in fights for the little people instead of looking for new zoning restrictions? Can we put a moratorium on going after people like gravel diggers? (I could have used some local gravel when my driveway washed away).and people too poor to pay taxes this year...instead of raise taxes and shorten tolerance.

http://traveloguefortheuniverse.blogspot.com Mary Gerdt

Tax Talk

It is always time
for Tax Talk...
These citixens want VT property tax accountability...

http://truenorthreports.com/citizens-want-property-tax-accountability

Happy Friday,

Wind & Wuthering spooled up for some classic music
& my all time favorite Genesis album

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I know, I rant all the time about Vermont Property tax reform
How about this story by WCAX TV.......

One

One

one thought was

all i had to find

to do a post,

when one

after another

would come and

go,

then one,

kept returning,

a thought like no other

like no other

more important

one,

one thought

of

Vermont Property Tax reform.

are you with me?

dreaming of a day when Vermonters

recognize the importance of property ownership,

and how the present system steadily,

surely

erodes what you own.

2012-the year of fees?

How about those late property tax fees,

sales and

shame of publication,

etc....

Call your vermont rep to tell them

your first priority is affordable

property ownership

and stop the VT property tax endless

bleeding.

Town Meetings to remember

History being made in Bristol, Vermont,
our neighboring town.

This must have been funny for the corrected: this is the planning commission,
This guy comes in, tries to say he has a voice.
Don't that silly guy know,
Selectmen and correction Planning commission members are Kings....

**warning: the writer of this blog does not condone treating citizens like this,
that is the stuff revolutions are made of...........

corrected after posting: this is the planning commission...

H.328

[I sent this letter to some local representatives and I urge any Vermonter who wants reform of Delinquent Tax Policy to write to their legislators as well, like right now. Go to Vermont.gov to find your rep's (is there an app for that?)] mary




Please support H.328.


The property taxes have become so burdensome for us. Please help reform what happens when you simply cannot pay. We suffered great penalties, shame and nearly lost our 4th generation farm after being 9 months late. The towns can be less lenient than banks and mortgage companies or not, at their discretion.

I have written everyone I can to explain what we went through. Please force some sensibility into local punishment of people who cannot pay. The motivation of locals not to change rests on tax collectors reaping large sums for short hours.



Beyond H.328: The VT property tax structure also punishes people like us who hold land more than 2 acres (56 ac) and pay taxes on that land (appraised at highest use even though it is open land) without income sensitivity. The town likewise has no income sensitivity.

Therefore we pay $1 for every $10 we earn to VT property taxes. That is with getting income sensitivity on our homestead portion.

To me that is not income sensitive.





Thank you for your time.
Mary Gerdt

Serfing USA

Serfing USA



The occupy people moved out of city hall park in Burlington, VT. It was getting cold anyway so perhaps they were secretly happy. Meanwhile, in the country, we got the piece of paper saying we paid
our $5 grand (VT prop taxes) and change to the town so they won't sell our farm next fall.
The money we drained from an account we set up for my eventual theoretical disability. I was denied disability insurance 3 days after my diagnosis of MS even though I showed and show no outward symptoms. So it is a race between draining our account vs. will I be able to work long enough to live here, in our 4th generation farmstead. It is a race against time.
I knew this post would come out awkwardly and sound weird to some. I started with a poem but it seemed too silly.
5 grand is a ridiculous amount for any 2 people to have to pay for the crime of being linear descendants to a Vermont farm.
Feeling more like a serf today than a citizen.
Occupy your job, Mary, and go to work.

Common and not so common Heroes

Heroes
come in all sizes, shapes and colors
Some Big
some small
Some pretty average guys
just trying to do the right thing,
not just for
themselves,
but for
Others...
This week,
Property taxes are due in this town
and other VT towns.
I know, you are weary of my rant,
so turn the channel off,
Or...
Check out Bruce's website:
http://www.vermontadvocate.com/
and get in the know
about the convoluted VT property tax system
and why it really does need a major reform.
Help support Bruce in his good fight.
Now off to work!
The town gets one dollar for every $10 I earn.

12 days of November

12 days of November

(...er 15 days until vt prop taxes due)

I.

christmas won't come around again,

 November tax man won't wait a day

They said we don't tolerate scofflaws

even if you don't have the money to pay.

12-15 days in November, we have to pay 5 grand

for living another year in the cold

and difficult land.

II.

first day it gets me, cannot fall asleep,

second day it fists me, i slap my face in dismay,

third day i am bummed out, sleeping on the couch,

fourth day i wash off my face and shake off all the slouch

fifth day we write the check so it won't be too late

sixth day to the post office and put it in the slot

seventh day we sit and contemplate our leaky broken roof,

eight day the fuel man comes and want some kind of proof,

now,

that's the price you've got to pay,

or you're gonna be fer-reezing, up here out here in the cold.

Ninth day is the weekend, your relaxing in the tub,

you're all dressed up no where to go,

but rub a dub dub dub,

tenth day is a sunday, and you pray with all your might,

that the fuel man don't cash the check before,

the eleventh,

it ain't right,

to be so milked out, so milked out of your dough,

that the twelfth day when it all passes,

that you got no dough to go,

anywhere.....

no christmas this year, honey...

the tax man done come.

 

Squeezing

Squeezing

Already feeling a squeeze,

when property taxes are predicted

to

Rise,

not be

Reformed

(still hoping).

If all

Citizens

are to share the

Cost,

then property owners

should not bear the brunt

Alone.

Somehow the voters allow

this warped complex

System

of

Statewide Property Taxes,

that are locally

collected

at varying times of the year

and enforced

using tax sales in as little as 6 months late

(or not, at the discretion

 of one person in each town)

Income sensitivity

is another challenging

math experiment.

Only parts are income sensitive

and the others

are not.

So after the awful

hurricane damage

I understand some have

 little to pay taxes on.

It is just hard to explain

why no one saw

my suffering

when I asked for abatement.

Now when my taxes might be raised

and another non property owning VT resident

does not pay a tax,

and my property

ownership

is

further Eroded,

do I have a standing to say

this is an unfair hardship

to property owners?

How can we reform

the VT property tax system

to stop all this

Squeezing?

Land Rights Week Study guide

For Land Rights Week I am posting a few spreadsheets I did awhile ago and hid away

until I could look at them again.

****I know you cannot read them, but it is the best I can do for now, i have the .pdf's but the conversion lacks clarity. If you want to see the actual .pdf maybe send me an e-mail...mary****

Show and tell for those curious (and those who ho hum ) about my rant re: VT property tax reform.

I promise to move to more entertaining subjects just as soon as I get this

posted in the blogosphere.

The PDF's were hard to get posted, but here is my research.

The Monkton delinquent tax policy was adopted by 3 men in 2004.

They are a.k.a. selectmen, town fathers.

(this policy is also available at monktonvt.com)

this is my spreadsheet of research:



spreadsheet of delinquent tax info monkton

basically it shows that from 2004-2009 there were virtually no properties sold.

in 2009, we were selected as on of 4 or 5 out of 54 delinquents that year.



actual pages below of delinquent tax list from the town report monkton:



list of delinquent taxes 2004-2009 and un enforced laws monkton

page 2 of delinquent taxes


there, that was a long day.
back to the back yard...rain is done for the day. mary