Don’t Be Late! Send Off Your Property Taxes Today
Press release from the County of Humboldt:
Property taxes are due now! Take a moment today and send in your tax payment to avoid being late? Don’t forget!
The second half of Humboldt County Property Taxes must be paid by Wednesday, April 10, 2019 in order to be timely; and mailed payments must be postmarked by this same date.
We urge anyone having questions regarding payment to first look at your tax bill, front and back, or check out the website https://humboldtgov.org/260/Treasurer—Tax-Collector as almost all answers can be found in one of these two places. If you don’t find the answer then call us at 707-476-2450.
Online payments can be made at the website https://humboldtgov.org/260/Treasurer—Tax-Collector; and credit card payments may also be made at the Treasurer-Tax Collector’s office. However, these payments involve processing by private companies so there is a service fee charged by these outside contractors (not by Humboldt County).
You may also make credit card payments over the phone by calling (855) 335-3132….and yes, the same service fees apply.
Late property tax payments result in a 10% penalty and a $20.00 cost. Most postal stations in Humboldt County close by 5:00 p.m. so after that envelopes are postmarked the following day.
There are also secure tax payment boxes just inside the Courthouse (before the security check-points) at both the 4th and 5th Street entrances; but the Courthouse closes at 5:00.
The Tax Collector’s Office will be very busy through April 10th. So if you wish to pay in person you will not only need to go through Courthouse security screening but may also have to wait in line once you get to the Tax Collector’s office. Mailing your payment will be less of a hassle.
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🕯Thanks Kym for the info and links.
Some rural post offices close at 4:30 PM.
Mine closes at 12:30 PM
thanks!
Extortion money for the local crooks
“Shortly the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They’ll only be able to parrot the information they’ve been given on the previous night’s news.” Zbigniew Brzezinski. His views led him to speak out, for example, against the “greed,” as he put it, of an American system that compounded inequality. He was the national security advisor to President Jimmy Carter.
“Congress has taxed INCOME, not compensation.” – [Conner v. U.S., 303 F Supp. 1187 (1969)] –
This is just one of MANY rulings where the Federal courts have consistently, repeatedly, ruled that payment for labor (wages, salaries and compensation for personal services) is NOT taxable!
“Income within the meaning of the 16th Amendment and the Revenue Act means, gain … and, in such connection, gain means profit … proceeding from property severed from capital, however invested or employed and coming in, received or drawn by the taxpayer for his separate use, benefit and disposal.”
– [Staples v. U.S., 21 F Supp 737 U.S. Dist. Ct. ED PA, 1937] –
“There is a clear distinction between `profit’ and `wages’, or a compensation for labor. Compensation for labor (wages) cannot be regarded as profit within the meaning of the law. The word profit’, as ordinarily used, means the gain made upon any business or investment — a different thing altogether from the mere compensation for labor.” – [Oliver v. Halstead, 86 S.E. Rep 2nd 85e9 (1955)] –
“The claim that salaries, wages, and compensation for personal services are to be taxed as an entirety and therefore must be returned by the individual who has performed the services which produce the gain is without support, either in the language of the Act or in the decisions of the courts construing it. Not only this, but it is directly opposed to provisions of the Act and to regulations of the U.S. Treasury Department, which either prescribed or permits that compensations for personal services not be taxed as a entirety and not be returned by the individual performing the services. It is to be noted that, by the language of the Act, it is not salaries, wages, or compensation for personal services that are to be included in gains, profits, and income derived from salaries, wages, or compensation for personal services.” – [Lucas v. Earl, 281 U.S. 111 (1930)] –
“… whatever may constitute income, therefore, must have the essential feature of gain to the recipient. This was true when the 16th Amendment became effective, it was true at the time of Eisner v. Macomber Supra, it was true under Section 22(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1938, and it is likewise true under Section 61(a) of the I.R.S. Code of 1954. If there is not gain, there is not income … Congress has taxed income not compensation.” [Conner v. U.S., 303 F Supp. 1187 (1969)] –
A much earlier ruling stated very simply: “… one does not derive income by rendering services and charging for them.” – [Edwards v. Keith, 231 F 111 (1916)] –
State court rulings coincide with the Federal courts. “… reasonable compensation for labor or services rendered is not profit.” – [Lauderdale Cemetery Assoc. v. Mathews, 345 PA 239; 47 A. 2d 277, 280 (1946)] –
“There is a clear distinction between profit and wages, or compensation for labor. Compensation for labor cannot be regarded as profit within the meaning of the law.” – [Oliver v. Halstead, 196 VA 992; 86 S.E. 2d 858 (1955)] –
LABOR IS PRIVATE PROPERTY
“Income means gains/profit from property severed from capitol, however invested or employed. Income is not a wage or compensation from any type of labor.” Stapler v. United States, 21 F.Supp 737 at 739
“…every man has a natural right to the fruits of their own labor, as generally admitted; and no other person can rightfully deprive him of those fruits, and appropriate them against his will…” The Antelope, 23 U.S. 66, 120.
“The right to labor and to its protection from unlawful interference is a constitutional as well as common-law right. Every man has a natural right to the fruits of his own industry.” 48 American Jurisprudence, pg. 80
“Among these unalienable rights, as proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence, is the right of men to pursue their happiness, by which is meant, the right to pursue any lawful business or vocation, in any manner not inconsistent with the equal rights of others…It has been well said that, the property which every one of us has is his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property so it is the most sacred and inviolable…to hinder his employing…in what manner he thinks proper, without injury to neighbors, is a plain violation of the most sacred property.”
Butchers’ Union v. Crescent City Co., 111 U.S. 746, at 756-757.
“There can be no sanction or penalty imposed upon any citizen because of the exercise of a constitutional right.” Sherar v. Cullen, 481 F. 945
“…The term [liberty]…denotes not merely freedom from bodily restraint but also the right of the individual to contract, to engage in any of the common occupations of life…The established doctrine is that this liberty may not be interfered with, under the guise of ‘protecting public interest,’ by legislative action…”
Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 U.S. 390, 399, 400
“A right common in every citizen such as the right to own property or to engage in business of a character not requiring regulation cannot, however, be taxed as a special franchise by first prohibiting its exercise and then permitting its enjoyment upon the payment of a certain sum of money.”
Stevens v State, 2 Ark., 291. 35 Am. Dec. 72
Spring Valley Water Works v Barber, 99 Cal. 36, 33 Pac. 735, 21 L.R.A. 416
“…The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, is a personal right, whether the property in question is a welfare check, a home, or a savings account. In fact a fundamental interdependence exists between the peoples right to liberty and the personal right to property. Neither could have meaning without the other.” Lynch v. Household Finance Corp., 405 U.S. 538.
I don’t have any problem paying a fair amount of taxes, considering the services provided, and I would support higher taxes to support a higher level of government help with medical issues such as 1) mental health facilities 2) nationwide healthcare
Europe has all this figured out- the system works really well.
As long as the government leaves countless crazy people raving and wandering the streets and endangering the public, it’s hard to want to chip in and pay for such a shit society.
Europe does not have it figured out. Go there and count all the Da Vici robot machines. Maybe you need two hands. You will not live as long under their junk medical system. Private health care is far superior to theirs. Remember “oh, you can keep your plan, keep your doctor”, bullshit Obama, you lied to us. Keep the govt out of our medical care, keep the govt out of our lives. Also, $30,000,000 is spent in this county towards wages to people making over $100,000 a year. Remember, they live better than the rest of us, but they really do not help any of us. Gas is high, food is high, they suck. Fuck the govt overpaid creeps, they should be ashamed.
1/2 Shelter Cove is a couple of years behind on property taxes supporting the rescue of Gilligan, Mary Anne and the crabby office lady on adventure.
You never really own your home or your car. Someone must always be paid every year to continue living there even if you “own” it. Hell everything you buy you must pay them a percentage as well 😂😂😂. The older the get the more I wonder how it is this way.
Have you ever had to maintain a road? It’s expensive. Do you like to have a fire department to call and a police dept? It’s expensive. Appreciate the admittedly primitive services we have here, and be happy to pay your property taxes. Federal taxes, that’s a different story.
Road maintenance is taken care of by gas taxes, which have not helped us here at all. Fire and police dept’s get state subsidies, so we don’t need much from the taxpayer. Again, $30,000,000, in salaried people over $100,000 just to start. Where are the homesteads for the homeless? Where are the lower food prices? $4.29 for a pound of butter? In Texas, $1.99. Gas, $2.62 a gallon, here, with all the road taxes doing what, we pay over a dollar more and get nothing for it. Where is the relief for property owners to prevent them from losing their land? Why haven’t the property taxes come down for the non growers? If you do not grow pot, why are you paying the same as those who do? All the people who live and work in town, or those out in the hills who choose not to grow, should have their taxes lowered by half. And due to the socialist democrats who have fucked up the entire pot industry here, our property values have plummeted. I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt yesterday, it said ” Black market lives matter”, I told her I supported her, been black market since 1981, I would never let socialists have my money, NAtional Zocialists are evil.
🕯All of Fortuna is out of code. As soon as the right people point it out and then the right people take a👀 there will be money to be made. No 🐃,,,,,. Kym did an article on the code inspector being busted back in 2015 I think? And they haven’t redone what he took bribes for or even hired a new one, I think?
I always pay the full year as soon as the bill arrives. And I pay in person, at the courthouse. Never had a problem with security and never saw anyone else there☺
How nice for you! I had a medical situation hit us and a string of terribly bad luck clobber us simultaneously and then a fire burned up my garden and cabin that next year. True story. So I fell behind…but no problem because the county cares about it’s residents! They are only charging me 18% on all back taxes. 18%. On money they borrow elsewhere at 3%. And if I slip at all on the way to paying them they will sell my home at auction. My only home- the only thing I own, all my equity in life will be taken, we will be homeless…. That’s how much the county cares about you or me! They sure are wonderful people down there in Eureka!! Just remember-you have nothing unless they say you do. And they hold all the cards. Great people. I remember this every time I see a brand new county vehicle driving around wasting gas.
I am a bit resentful that we no longer receive the 10% senior discount on property tax. I do not know if that is a state or county issue.
https://homeguides.sfgate.com/paying-property-taxes-behind-51274.html
Generally there are some options. The first I can think is to finance the taxes at a credit union. They certainly will not be charging 18%.
Did that today.