Any one have any news on this case?
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Alabama residents challenge Florida?s Save Our Homes amendment (With documents)
RACHEL KYLER
Thursday March 15th, 2007
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Four Alabama residents are using Walton and Okaloosa counties? taxing agencies as the catalyst for a class-action lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Florida?s Save Our Homes amendment.
The residents, who have homes in Santa Rosa Beach and Destin, claim they are paying a disproportionate share of property taxes compared to Florida residents with homestead properties.
DOCUMENTS : Read the lawsuit
?There is a mindset in Florida to transfer your burden to other states,? said Birmingham attorney William Slaughter, lead counsel for the homeowners.
Slaughter?s wife, Diana is named as a plaintiff along with Jerome and Joyce Lanning of Birmingham and Marlow Reese of Montgomery.
They filed the lawsuit Feb. 22 in Leon County.
In the past four years, more than $8 billion in taxes has been diverted from Florida residents to out-of-state residents, Slaughter said.
The lawsuit asks the state to refund non-homestead homeowners with taxes they?ve been assessed since 2003 above what they would have paid as full-time residents.
?The hope is to put things back on an equal basis,? Slaughter said.
For the complete story, see Friday's Daily News.
http://www.nwfdailynews.com/article/2415
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Alabama residents challenge Florida?s Save Our Homes amendment (With documents)
RACHEL KYLER
Thursday March 15th, 2007
Comment on this Story | Read Comments
Four Alabama residents are using Walton and Okaloosa counties? taxing agencies as the catalyst for a class-action lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Florida?s Save Our Homes amendment.
The residents, who have homes in Santa Rosa Beach and Destin, claim they are paying a disproportionate share of property taxes compared to Florida residents with homestead properties.
DOCUMENTS : Read the lawsuit
?There is a mindset in Florida to transfer your burden to other states,? said Birmingham attorney William Slaughter, lead counsel for the homeowners.
Slaughter?s wife, Diana is named as a plaintiff along with Jerome and Joyce Lanning of Birmingham and Marlow Reese of Montgomery.
They filed the lawsuit Feb. 22 in Leon County.
In the past four years, more than $8 billion in taxes has been diverted from Florida residents to out-of-state residents, Slaughter said.
The lawsuit asks the state to refund non-homestead homeowners with taxes they?ve been assessed since 2003 above what they would have paid as full-time residents.
?The hope is to put things back on an equal basis,? Slaughter said.
For the complete story, see Friday's Daily News.
http://www.nwfdailynews.com/article/2415
