Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) is asking Palm Beach County to tax Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property at the rate the former president claims it is worth amid his ongoing civil fraud trial in New York, NBC News reports.
Wrote Moskowitz: “Between 2011 and 2021, you value the Mar-a-Lago property between $18 million and $28 million. Mar-a-Lago was listed as worth $490 million in financial documents given to banks. If the property value of Mar-a-Lago is so much higher than it was appraised, will you be amending the property value in line with the Trump family’s belief that the property is worth well over a billion dollars?”
Florida resident here, Trump didn’t live on the property between 2011-2019. He should be liable for the increase.
It won’t save him much, that’s for sure. Florida’s homestead exemption knocks $25k off the assessed value (and no school taxes on the next $25k, or something like that). For me it’s a lot of money. For Mar-a-Lago it’s a rounding error.