Does anyone know when the period for payment of real estate taxes- with a discount for advance payment- will begin this year?
I went by the tax office today to check on it: they told me I'd get a 10% discount if I paid now, but that they thought the offer might be 25% if I paid in December- so, I think I'll wait!
V: Just curious: The longer one waits, the bigger discount one gets..? Wish it worked the same with credit card payments, CFE, Telmex etc, hehe
No no no. The 20% discount is only Dec 1-15. Si Paga entre el 01/12/2011 y eI15/12/2011(20.00%): Si Paga entre eI16/12/2011 y eI15/01/2012 (15.00%): Si Paga entre eI16/01/2012 y eI15/02/2012 (10.00%): Si Paga entre eI16/02/2012 y eI28/02/2012 (05.00%): EL DESCUENTO SOLO APLICA PARA IMPUESTO CORRIENTE
I paid the annual taxes on my condo, today. A 15% discount is in effect, at this time. There was no change in the tax rate from last year to this, but they did reduce the discount offered from 25%, last year, to 15%, this year. I paid at the Municipal Palace, where there is no waiting or any kind: they have a very large number of people working this collection effort.
Mine went up about 55%. Will be taking advantage of the 15% of course but that means a net increase of 40%.
Wow, Jim, that's huge! Did the assessed value of your property go up? Mine stayed the same, and their was no change in the taxes owed from last year to this.
Schedule of discounts The latest news I could find on discounts in Benito Juarez Municipality all seem to agree that the discounts are to be 15% for the entire month of December; then 10% for January, and 5% for payments made in February: there was to be a 50% discount, with some limitations, for holders of INAPAM cards. For the INAPAM discounts it was said you could only request the discount on a single property, which had to be the place you lived, and that the discount was applicable only to sums equal to 20,000 times the minimum wage (56.70 pesos for 2011, Quintana Roo). [I frankly don't know exactly how to understand what is meant, here: what I would assume is meant by this language is that a discount of 50% will be applied only to that part of the assessed valuation that does not exceed an amount equal to 20,000 times 56.70 pesos; but, when I requested the discount I was told it didn't apply to me because the assessed value of my property exceeded this amount. Looking back on it, I wish I had investigated just a little further, as the cashier may simply have not understood this well, and been wrong in what she told me.] ______________________
