Letter: Tax hike for non-resident property owners unfair
To the editor:
I just heard of what the (Middletown) Town Council is planning to do with raising the tax rate for non-owner-occupied properties. Totally unfair and not right.
I have …
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Letter: Tax hike for non-resident property owners unfair
To the editor:
I just heard of what the (Middletown) Town Council is planning to do with raising the tax rate for non-owner-occupied properties. Totally unfair and not right.
I have (like many other landlords) charged affordable rents, always have, and want to continue. However, because of you raising the rate for non-owner-occupied properties, that may have to end. So all you are doing is making it tougher for affordable housing. Landlords will increase the rents to absorb this unfair tax that you are burdening them with.
Why is your answer always finding ways to keep raising taxes? You talk about affordable housing in Middletown, and you then shoot yourself in the foot by making it difficult for landlords whose rents are affordable for their tenants by this unfair tax increase.
David McCauley
118 Young Drive
Portsmouth
Editor’s note: In June, the Middletown Town Council voted 6-1 to approve a resolution to increase property taxes on non-resident owners and rental properties by 30 percent.
