Personal property tax is just that... a tax on your personal property... ie not real estate. Things like cars, motorcycles, boats, trailers, trucks, farm equipment, livestock, and just about anything else they think they can get away with falls under this category.
It breaks down like this to a certain extent... cities get sales tax and real estate taxes, counties get personal property taxes, and the state gets income tax. I get screwed.
Ours went up also, and it has to do with the way the State of Misery has redefined the valuation of our property. Also... the morons around here keep passing every school tax increase that is put before them. Pig9r... compare your school tax levies to years past and you will find your increase. Don't get me wrong... I'm all for nice schools and decent salaries for teachers but you guys should see the layout we have here.. (and in Lee's Summit). Our two high schools have football stadiums that rival most NFL teams and both Blue Springs and Blue Springs South are rated in the top 10 NATIONALLY in football. Do we really need that rolling roof and the executive suites for high school football? And the diamond studded yard markers... that's a little much. Well, as long as we have them, we might as well keep them... right?
I guess I'm just a hopeless old fart that remebers buying motorcycles for a couple hundred bucks, putting less than a dollar in the tank to fill it up and not paying 22 different kinds of taxes on the darn thing...
Sorry... :soapbox: .... I'm done...
