MeanGreen From United States of America, joined May 2006, 124 posts, RR: 0 Posted (2 years 11 months 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 4057 times:
I hope someone can point me in the correct direction because google can't; does anyone know how this works? Let's say you have property and half of your house is in Nebraska and the other half is in Kansas. Would you have to pay double taxes, or is it half and half? Does anyone have any examples of this? What about on the US/Canada border? I have seen pictures on google maps of this and was curious. Thanks!
Sonic From Lithuania, joined Jan 2000, 1669 posts, RR: 1 Reply 2, posted (2 years 11 months 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 4023 times:
I know about such situations in European Union, namely Baarle city on the Netherlands and Belgium boundary (there are no customs as both countries are part of Schengen treaty). It is so there that a house is then considered to be in a country where its front door are.
There were even cases when the inhabittants changes the location of front door in order for their house to be "relocated" to another country (or at least that is urban legend).
PlateMan From United States of America, joined May 2007, 788 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (2 years 11 months 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 3935 times:
You must be reading my mind, I was thinking about this the other day, as I often pass from DC-VA-MD. A lot of houses share DC-MD border, some have across the street neighbors in a different state...I was thinking how neat it must be to have that.
Bwest From Belgium, joined Jul 2006, 1265 posts, RR: 5 Reply 5, posted (2 years 11 months 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 3857 times:
There's a Belgian town, Baarle-Hertog, which is located inside Holland and then you have parts of a Dutch town inside that Belgian town. Has something to do with ancient counties.
Anyway, because of this unique situation, a lot of houses are in two countries. The nationality of your house is determined by the location of the front door. Which has a lot of consequences, not only do you pay taxes in the country where your front door is in, but it also affects which companies can deliver telephone, gas, electricity, post and whatever other services to you...
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Quoting PlateMan (Reply 4): You must be reading my mind, I was thinking about this the other day, as I often pass from DC-VA-MD. A lot of houses share DC-MD border, some have across the street neighbors in a different state...I was thinking how neat it must be to have that.
Exactly! Part of my family owns and owned several hundred acres on the VA-WV border around Shenandoah, When I first came from IAD one evening by car and had hard times finding the right directions back in the day, I asked one local and he said: Oh, the XX family, well they live in another state .. I was like "Dooh" and saw me driving for hours ... unti he pointed down the road "See that Walnut treet? 200 yds and there ou are" Turns out I've been cirling back and forth between VA and WV a dozen times that night.
Now they moved south to Rappahannock and I still enjoy the good old times there ... you could easily make it through 4 states in one day just by visitng friends and families ...
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SW733 From Namibia, joined Feb 2004, 5790 posts, RR: 12 Reply 8, posted (2 years 11 months 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 3786 times:
I have a friend who grew up in a house where the building was in Tennessee, but the backyard (largest part of the property) was in Georgia. However, since the address was Tennessee, they only had to pay Tennessee taxes.
Don81603 From Canada, joined Jul 2005, 1185 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (2 years 11 months 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 3736 times:
Where I grew up in Northern Ontario, 2 cities side by side (Port Arthur and Fort William) were in different time zones. It was almost comical to see the migration from Port Arthur to Fort William at 1AM when the bars closed, as it was still only midnight across town...
Lloydminster straddles the border between Alberta and Saskatchewan. What puzzles me is, Alberta has no provincial sales tax, whereas Saskatchewan does... So do all those in the SK part of town drive across the line to shop in AB, or did city council come up with a more suitable arrangement?
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Grozzy From Australia, joined Oct 2007, 147 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (2 years 11 months 5 days ago) and read 3651 times:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd assume that in most of these cases there would be two or more land titles, each wholly within one state or the other. The taxes would be the sum of the individual blocks of land. I can't imagine an administrative boundary going right through the middle of an individual block.
Mayor From United States of America, joined Mar 2008, 7521 posts, RR: 10 Reply 11, posted (2 years 11 months 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 3590 times:
When I was in high school, our house straddled the border of a school district. The line went right thru my bedroom and there was some dispute as to which high school I should go to. I had already been going to the one and wanted to stay there and certainly didn't want to attend the other as they were our hated rivals. Don't know HOW they decided it but I got to stay at my favored school.
Imagine that, being fought over!!
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YOWza From Canada, joined Jul 2005, 4703 posts, RR: 22 Reply 12, posted (2 years 11 months 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 3573 times:
Quoting Don81603 (Reply 9): It was almost comical to see the migration from Port Arthur to Fort William at 1AM when the bars closed, as it was still only midnight across town...
haha classic. You'd think people would learn to just start the night there and save themselves a drunken walk.
Kingairta From United States of America, joined Feb 2009, 338 posts, RR: 0 Reply 14, posted (2 years 11 months 4 days 14 hours ago) and read 3514 times:
I have relatives in Maine who own 100 acres and the property is split by town lines. They pay a proportionate amount to each municipality. One town gets X amount and the other town gets Y amount. According to them it's a pain every year.
Greasespot From Canada, joined Apr 2004, 3015 posts, RR: 26 Reply 16, posted (2 years 11 months 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 3448 times:
Quoting Don81603 (Reply 9): So do all those in the SK part of town drive across the line to shop in AB, or did city council come up with a more suitable arrangement
My grand parents had a farm in the Wainwright area. Lloyminster is exempt from the SK sales tax.....But personal taxes is solely based on your address...If your in Alberta side you pay Alberta taxes and if your in SK you pay their taxes.
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MeanGreen From United States of America, joined May 2006, 124 posts, RR: 0 Reply 17, posted (2 years 10 months 4 weeks 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 3254 times:
Thanks to everyone that responded! Now what if your front door had a state line going down the middle
Falstaff From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 5172 posts, RR: 33 Reply 18, posted (2 years 10 months 4 weeks 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 3243 times:
Quoting TUNisia (Reply 1): The house I live in now is half in one city and half in the other. Taxes are proportional for the size of the property in each city.
I know a guy like that. His house is in Dearborn and his garage is in Detroit.
Quoting Bwest (Reply 5): There's a Belgian town, Baarle-Hertog, which is located inside Holland and then you have parts of a Dutch town inside that Belgian town. Has something to do with ancient counties.
How far away is the rest of Belgium? I would love to visit that town.
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Turns out I've been cirling back and forth between VA and WV a dozen times that night.
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