Deadbeat parent; a parent that has freely chosen not to financially support his or her children, Deadbeat taxpayer: a commercial property owner who paid less property tax in 2008 than he or she did in 2000.

More examples of deadbeat commercial taxpayers in Barnstable, MA.

I guarantee that there is no city or town in the United States, other than Barnstable, or Cape Cod, Massachusetts where commercial property owners paid less taxes in 2008 than in 2000.

Will Governor Patrick, Speaker DiMasi, and Senate President Murray, please take notice;

Barnstable homeowner tax rate is $0.78 more than the commercial rate.

The Barnstable Town Council refused to adopt the split tax rate despite the fact the business class levy was 4.5% less in 2008 than it was in 2000.

The commercial rate is $5.80,

while the Barnstable homeownertax rate is $6.54.

Barnstable's commercial tax rate is $14.00 less than the average commercial tax rate.throughout the commonwealth.

If the Barnstable Town Council refused to adopt the split tax rate, why should the legislature award the town more state aid? 

Compare the commercial tax efforts with other cities and towns in Massachusetts in 2008 with Barnstable's anemic $5.80 tax rate;

ATTLEBORO	$15.55
AUBURN	$21.83
AVON	$21.52
AYER	$23.85
BEDFORD	$25.80
BEVERLY	$18.47
BILLERICA	$24.75
BOLTON	$15.05
BOSTON	$25.92
BRAINTREE	$18.97
BROCKTON	$19.34
BROOKLINE	$16.70
BUCKLAND	$13.32
BURLINGTON	$26.30
CAMBRIDGE	$17.24
CANTON	$18.40
CHELSEA	$20.76
CHICOPEE	$26.01
CLINTON	$20.94
DANVERS	$16.00
DEDHAM	$25.18
DIGHTON	$19.58
EVERETT	$24.61
FAIRHAVEN	$15.67
FALL RIVER	$16.31
FITCHBURG	$17.29
FLORIDA	$19.70
FRAMINGHAM	$28.09
HAVERHILL	$17.25
HAWLEY	$14.75
HOLBROOK	$24.47
HOLYOKE	$33.98
HOPEDALE	$20.08
HUDSON	$21.42
LAWRENCE	$20.54
LEXINGTON	$23.63
LITTLETON	$20.57
LONGMEADOW	$16.96
LOWELL	$21.27
LYNN	$21.45
MALDEN	$17.03
MARLBOROUGH	$24.58
MAYNARD	$22.76
MEDFORD	$18.69
MEDWAY	$14.06
MELROSE	$17.46
MILFORD	$20.23
MILTON	$18.96
MONROE	$33.49
MONSON	$11.92
MONTAGUE	$20.68
NEEDHAM	$18.92
NEW ASHFORD	$10.98
NEW BEDFORD	$21.51
NEWTON	$18.46
NORFOLK	$12.78
NORTH ADAMS	$26.72
PEABODY	$17.80
PELHAM	$17.37
PITTSFIELD	$28.35
QUINCY	$22.22
RANDOLPH	$18.58
REVERE	$19.63
SALEM	$22.11
SAUGUS	$18.41
SEEKONK	$20.09
SHARON	$16.79
SHUTESBURY	$15.90
SOMERSET	$23.66
SOMERVILLE	$17.97
SPRINGFIELD	$32.04
STONEHAM	$17.70
STOUGHTON	$19.53
STURBRIDGE	$15.44
SUDBURY	$18.47
SWAMPSCOTT	$25.21
SWANSEA	$16.40
TAUNTON	$17.59
TEWKSBURY	$19.21
WAKEFIELD	$19.28
WALTHAM	$23.21
WATERTOWN	$21.01
WEST BRIDGEWATER	$19.84
WEST SPRINGFIELD	$32.61
WESTFIELD	$26.73
WESTWOOD	$21.67
WEYMOUTH	$16.50
WILMINGTON	$22.96
WOBURN	$22.57
WORCESTER	$26.20
BARNSTABLE	$5.80
BARNSTABLE WITH SPLIT TAX	$8.45

The commercial tax rate in many other cities and towns in Massachusetts is from three to six times greater than Barnstable, without a negative impact on business.

A  2000 dollar is only worth $.80 today, which means Barnstable commercial property owners paid their 2008 town property taxes with 2000 dollars.

Barnstable's municipal spending in 2000, not including enterprise accounts, was

$72 million,

that in 2008 increased to 

$101 million.

Not one red cent of the $29 million increase came from commercial property owners, because the commercial levy was $300,000 less in 2008 than 2000.

Council President, Janet Joakim, refused to support and vote for the split tax rate to shift $3.7 million in property taxes from residential to commercial property owners, despite an 80% - 20% residential tax relief mandate of the voters to correct the commercial levy shortfall.

Councilors Joakim, Fred Chirigotis, Harold Tobey, James Tinsley, James Munafo, James Crocker, Hank Farnham, and Janice Barton, claim the increase in property taxes would be draconian to business with little impact on homeowners.

This is the fourth post in which I’ve compared the 2000 and 2008 tax bills of specific properties. 

You decide who is screwing whom in Barnstable.

#1 is the old Hearth and Kettle Restaurant/Bakery on Richardson Road near the Bell Tower Mall.

In 2000 when it was the Hearth and Kettle Bakery/Restaurant the town tax bill was;

$4,152.64

The 2008 tax bill for the property, now the Casual Gourmet, owned by the notorious town hall sycophant, David Chase and his wife, Olive Chase, is

$3,332.68,

which is -$819.96 or -20% less than it was eight years ago.

Homeowners paid all of the 40% increase in town spending between the years of 2000 and 2008, as well as making up Chase’s 20% tax cut, through property tax increases.

 

#2) is the Sunoco station across the street from the Centerville Plaza on Falmouth Road (Route 28) in 2000 paid a town property tax bill of

$4,311.89,

that dropped to

$3,541.48 this year,

a tax cut of -$770.41, or -18%.

    

 

#3) is Marcel Poyant’s 1620 Falmouth Road, or the property leased to the Centerville Post Office, the former CVS (now a gym), Card Shoppe, Dunkin Donuts, Tedeschi’s, and Cape Cod 5 Bank.

In 2000 that section of the plaza paid a town tax bill of

$37,121.30

and in 2008 the section’s town property bill was

$25,401.68,

or -$11,719.62, and -32%, less in eight years.

#4) is Poyant’s property at 1676 Falmouth Road abutting BankNorth in the Centerville Plaza that includes Coachlight Carpets, and a half dozen other businesses.

In 2000 the property incurred a town property tax bill of

$11,484.81,

and in 2008 the town tax bill on the property is

$8,261.52,

or -$3,223.29, which is -28% less property tax from eight years ago.

#5 is Poyant’s 2000 tax bill for the property in the Centerville Plaza between the Centerville Post Office and the Camp Opechee Road entrance to the plaza where Anderson Hardware, and other businesses are located.

In 2000 the property incurred a town tax bill of

$5,721.14,

and in 2008 the town’s two tax bills (residential and commercial) totaled

$4,187.43,

which is -$1,533.71 or -27% less that it was eight years ago.

#6) is located at 1708 Falmouth Road, and is the property where the BankNorth building is located.

In 2000 the property incurred a town tax bill of

$6,337.12,

which dropped to

$4,500.80 in 2008,

and is -$1,836.32, or -29% less than the same tax eight years ago.

COLLECTIVELY THE CENTERVILLE PLAZA PROPERTIES PAID $19,083 LESS PROPERTY TAX IN 2008 THAN 2000.

#7) Is located at 1600 Falmouth Road, the Bell Tower Mall that in 2000 incurred a town tax bill of

$78,139.82,

that dropped to

$53,736.42 in 2008,

or -$24,403.40 less in 2008, a 31% TAX CUT IN EIGHT YEARS.

#8) Is located at 488 South Street. or Dave Columbo’s Road House Café.

In 2000 Columbo’s town tax on his restaurant was

$6,549.90,

which dropped to

$4,068.70 in 2008

for a -$2,481.20 tax cut (38%).

#9) Is located at 478 South Street and in 2000 was a 1930's circa gasoline station that was out of business.

In 2000 Humble Oil, the owner, paid a town tax bill of

$2,819.43. 

In 2008 the station is now owned by Columbo, but leased to Ed Lambert and his wife, as their brand new Fifth Avenue Upscale women's clothing store.  Astoundingly, despite the transformation of the property, the 2008 town property tax bill is

$2,351.90,

or $467.63 less than it was in 2000, a 17% cut in property taxes.

Between 2000 and 2008 Barnstable homeowner property taxes increased

$22 million,

or 42%.

Comments

[John Julius]

Does anyone know a GOOD reporter from the Boston Globe who might want to write an article on this CRIMINAL THIEVERY? because, like this or not, this is just what this, criminal.

The Barnstable HOMEOWNERS are being robbed by the commercial folks and the Town Administration AND THE IDIOTS who call themselves 'councilors' continue to allow this thievery!

And as for the town Manager, he is clueless and useless. Don't count on John Klimm to HELP ONE BARNSTABLE HOMEOWNER hers because hell will freeze over first. And people should go log into the town web site and see the 'new look' of the site. THERE IS our master John Klimm, and the so called 'interview' with him is the biggest LAUGH I have had in months! I heard that Master Klimm recently hired a former news director to be his 'new propaganda guru'. No offense Mr. Klimm BUT PLEEEEEAAASE........ Someone told me you are paying this guy like $ 75K a year. And yet not ONE councilor questions this GARBAGE! I also heard about some new daily 'propaganda' crap on channel 18 daily, if this is accurate. So let me get this straight..........

John Klimm goes and hires a couple people to do this propaganda crap to the tune of what? Maybe close to $ 200K a year!!!! I heard that he has the former news director and another guy ( Mr. Gobeil, maybe?) and a third to do the actual video of this crap! So here we are in a major recession, and John Klimm WASTES a couple hundred grand a YEAR on his propaganda nonsense just so he can make the VOTERS here THINK hs is some good manager.

Know what? Mr. Klimm is a bigger joke than the idiots on the town council, and Gary's post here is all PURE FACT!

So if anyone knows anone from the Boston Globe, please have a reporter do an article on the GROSS INEQUITIES of the TAX practices of this town. It is criminal and the biggest THIEVERY anyone will ever see.

And Gary, keep up the good work.

As for Town Manager Klimm, hw REALLY thnks he can fool people. John, you have no clue and never did!

[mary, laughing all the way out of the courthouse!]

Obviously, we need a mayor, and it maybe coming sooner than we think. Let's face it folks, Revere rode into town and kicked ass. It looks like Milne will have his seat on the charter commission, one if by land, two if by sea!

[Trying to keep up with the sultan!]

Gary - I have your website stored on a four GZ flash drive for study and future reference. I can't get anymore onto the drive I've got. Got suggestions as to how I can save the new stuff. I haven't been able to save for about a week now. What do I do? By a bigger flash drive?

I'll write a summation post of all the commercial properties, including their tax cuts.

[Prissy]

Gary, thanks for this undisputed post. What I want to know is how our councilors would justify this. What would their answer be? How could they possibly explain this because for every penny they give to the business owners, the residents have to make it up. I don't want anyone to be gouged, I just want everyone to pay their fair share. I would love to know how many residents are reading this and can speak up and say "my property taxes decreased".