Property Taxes: California Vs Texas -- 2022

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House value:

Property tax rate:

Property taxes:

• Texas:
• $390,000 x 1.6% = $6,240
• California:
• $863,000 x 0.0071 = $6,127.

Electricity:

Maintenance costs:

• Common sense can figure this one out.

Pool costs:

Car registration:

• Texas: $50
• interesting to say the least
• my three cars, a 2005 minivan; a 2007 minivan; a 2011 Honda Civic: each $75
• I have no idea how "they" get Texas average to $50 -- wow
  
• California: $45
  

State income tax (numbers rounded):

• Texas: $0.
• California:
• married, filing jointly
• nine brackets
• lowest bracket, 1% begins on income of $1.00
• mid-range bracket: 9.3% on $130,000: $12,090 -- annual state income tax bill
  
• and talk about regressive: 
• that 9.3% extends all the way up to $677,000 annual income
• $130,000 is probably a reasonable income to consider for a married couple interested in investing and interested in the Bakken
  
• 10.3% kicks in at $673,000 annual income
• so, if you earn $130,000 (married, filing jointly) you pay the same rate as a couple earning $650,000 / year
• 12.3% on incomes greater than $1.4 million

Note: this was the first time I really paid any attention to the tax brackets in California. I'm appalled. To say California state income taxes are progressive it complete bullshit.