{"id":1494,"date":"2019-11-14T18:01:02","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T18:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2019-11-14T18:01:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T18:01:02","slug":"lege-trend-taxing-empty-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/lege-trend-taxing-empty-houses\/","title":{"rendered":"Lege TREND. Taxing Empty Houses."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Where: <\/strong> Wyoming<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What legislation?<\/strong> Draft legislation by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyoleg.gov\/Legislators\/2019\/H\/2054\">WY Rep. Yin <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How is the tax levied?<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On Property that is vacant 6 months or more per year<\/li><li>Flate fee<\/li><li>5% of revenue stays with county<\/li><li>95% goes to the state Property Tax Refund Program\u00a0<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Policy Supporting argument:<\/strong> This incentivizes   more housing in the community by encouraging renting vacant houses<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Have other cities tried this?<\/strong> YES<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Vancouver say a 15% decline in the vacancy rate<\/li><li>Paris raised the tax rate on vacant homes<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jhnewsandguide.com\/news\/legislature\/empty-house-it-could-cost-you\/article_474fa00e-f580-5c57-86f4-fd1f21de0861.html\">Jackson Hole News | Empty house? It could cost you<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where: Wyoming What legislation? Draft legislation by WY Rep. Yin How is the tax levied? On Property that is vacant 6 months or more per year Flate fee 5% of revenue stays with county 95% goes to the state Property Tax Refund Program\u00a0 Policy Supporting argument: This incentivizes more housing in the community by encouraging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1495,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions\/1495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}