Now that state lawmakers have passed a property tax plan, there are new
\nconcerns the idea of limiting taxes on homesteads could be
\nunconstitutional. The argument was raised during debate, and today,
\nreporters asked the governor if he thought the new tax language, it
\nadopted by voters, could be ruled unconstitutional. He called on his
\nchief of staff George Lemiux, who answered the question this way:<\/p>\n

It?s been the position of this office and of our legal council that the
\ncurrent system of Save Our Homes as well as making it portable, which is
\njust really taking the current system with you, is constitutional. It
\ndoes not treat out-of-state folks any different then it treats in-state
\nfolks. What it does is it prefers homesteaders, whether they?re in-state
\nor out-of-state. So we believe it?s constitutional and it will be defended.”<\/p>\n

To date, there has been no aggressive court challenge to the
\nconstitutionality of the Save Our Homes provisions, but making the
\ndifference even larger between homestead and non homestead properties
\nmight draw such a challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that state lawmakers have passed a property tax plan, there are new concerns the idea of limiting taxes on homesteads could be unconstitutional. The argument was raised during debate, and today, reporters asked the governor if he thought the new tax language, it adopted by voters, could be ruled unconstitutional. He called on his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8,3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}