If you pay 1% for one house, someone with 2 houses should pay 2%, and a company with 2000 homes should pay 2000%

That would make it increasingly difficult for mega companies to buy up everything and torture the housing market

  • GalacticRobot@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Seems overly complicated. Why not just tax based on the assessed value of the land. Undeveloped forest one one acre, basically nothing. 2,500sqft McMansion on 1 acre, worth $1 million. Own more than one home? Tax rate gets a multiplier which exponentially grows. Hell, even at a linear rate, by the time you own 100 homes, you are paying 100% of assessed value per year in taxes.

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      3 hours ago

      I concur, total assessed value of all real estate holdings would be a better metric.