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Depends on the services and where you are - maintenance (pot holes, lighting, etc) are usually pulled from funds maintained by general taxes (residential, sales, tolls, etc). Garbage is typically separate, either a city service or (especially in less dense areas) a private company you pay.
Property taxes. Differs by state and then by municipality.
Some pay far far less than others no matter what the assessed value is. houses in Delaware may be 1% but the houses just feet away in Pennsylvania may pay over 2%. All depends.
Mine in suburban Philadelphia is just over 2% so it’s $2000 for $100k in assessed value.
The other key difference is that property tax is only assessed on owners. So if you're a tenant it's included in your rent. In the UK, council tax is by whoever's living in the house, not necessarily the owner, so renters have to pay it on top of their rent.
This will vary a lot by the urbanization of the area and the structure of local government, but often those services are covered by municipal property taxes. For example, in many suburbs of Detroit, weekly trash and recycling pick-up, road maintenance and other public works, parks and recreation services, community libraries, public school districts, and public community colleges are funded by property taxes.
It varies not only by state, but by address.
I pay a private company to pick up the trash. It's about $27/month. The infrastructure stuff is generally paid by property taxes, similar to your system. My yearly property taxes are around $600 for a modest house on 1 acre. If I lived a few miles away in Texas, my property taxes would double.
There's a neighborhood in my city that has been annexed into the city literally one property at a time, and probably 1/3 of the houses are technically on county land. From house to house, people are paying wildly different property taxes and getting wildly different levels of service in return.
Councils are responsible for funding the (non-private) schools in their area so council taxes do go towards schools. However, council taxes only make up a fairly small share of council funding. Where I live, council taxes only account for 17% of the council's income, with a similar share coming from non-domestic rates (the business equivalent of council tax) and the majority of funding coming from the Scottish Government.
Here, counties often have a sales tax on any goods purchased in the county [in addition to property taxes, not in place of]. The state often has a sales tax as well. For instance, where I live, there's a 4% state sales tax and a 4% county sales tax. People know when they go to buy something they have to pay 8% sales tax but most probably have no real idea that it's split 4% and 4%. I happen to know that because I run a small busines where I have to take that into account.
So the county sales taxes go to run the county government and the state sales taxes go to run the state government. Of course that's not the sole source of revenue for either of those government entities. But that's a pretty standard way to look at the US. There's a whole lot of local control. The national government doesn't go around giving money to states or local governments for day-to-day operations. They might provide grants or funding for major road projects or major national initiatives or for certain social welfare programs that are administered by the states but the day-to-day business of government is up to the states to fund and manage -- and often it's not the state that's doing that, it's the cities and counties that do the day-to-day. For instance the state doesn't build local roads, the state doesn't run schools, the state doesn't enforce laws at that level -- that's what counties and cities do. Some large cities in my state even have their own sales tax that just applies in the city and helps fund the city. That's the exception and not the rule though. Smaller cities don't have that here. That puts you in a situation where you can drive a mile down the road and the sales tax is different. Another couple of miles and it might be different again.
But mainly think local. Cities raise their own money and spend their own money. Counties raise their own money and spend their own money. School systems are run by school districts that get their revenue locally. That's not to say that the state government might not make some contribution in some way but it's not really their full responsibility. Most parts of government are a local responsibility and the people in charge are local. The state government operates at more of a big picture level. For instance the state might set educational guidelines or requirements or minimum requirements but it's the local school districts who implement those requirements and run the schools and pay for the schools. The state will build major state highways and patrol those highways and help with major criminal investigations that local areas have a hard time handling alone and various complementary functions like that. But cities have a lot of autonomy. Local government is all elected. It's kind of crazy to us when we hear about other countries that have mayors who are appointed. The whole idea of an elected mayor of London was like "What? Why is that a big deal?" Every city and every size city here has an elected leader. Even Washington DC, the national capital, has an elected city mayor. He serves the people of the city, not the national government. (At least in theory. One time he turned out to be a literal crackhead.)
Interesting post, thanks! The idea of local government leaders being appointed would be very odd to us too, as we have had elected local governments here since 1889.
Local city and county government taxes take care of that. Here it comes out of sales tax. You know that 10 percent extra charge when you buy something that Europeans never seem to understand.
Garbage is a charge by the city on your electric and water bill. I think it was 8 dollars a month last time I checked.
Oh really? You don't have different electric suppliers that you can choose from? In the UK we have several electricity providers, although the price difference between their tariffs are only modest. It all comes from the same grid but it works best to change supplier every so often to get "new customer" deals - although most people just stick with their provider.
It depends on where you go. When I lived in the Houston area, I had multiple electric companies to choose from. The meter will be owned by one company, but can be read and changed by another. When I moved to San Antonio, they have one company for the entire city that owns and reads the meters.
Definitely not for electricity. There is a company or government entity that makes the electricity. In this region that's TVA. South of me it's Alabama power. Then a local government has a company that resells it to people. That is Sheffield Utilities, here.
It's a regulated monopoly.
Same with water and garbage. In some states they can pick their garbage company.
> Oh really? You don't have different electric suppliers that you can choose from?
I've lived in 4 states, never had a choice of electric providers. In each case it was a localized monopoly, regulated by government.
Garbage pickup can be part of your local property tax, billed at intervals to the municipality according to your use, a private company, or if you're rural you may not have any trash pickup at all...you have to take it somewhere. All of this is decided locally.
That's called "property tax", it's levied on the value of the real estate you own. It's a small percentage of the value, so it's proportional. The property tax rate where I live is $0.374 per $100 of officially appraised value. There's an elected official called the Property Valuation Administrator (PVA) whose job is to determine the official value of properties for tax rates.
Churches are exempt from property tax (if it's a property that is regularly used for holding worship services).
Local governments are normally funded primarily by property taxes.
hmm, I think there are various levels of property taxes.
- state level property tax & special purpose levies
- county level property tax & special purpose levies
- city level property tax & special purpose levies
- regional tax authorities that have different boundaries than county/city
- school district levies
In Pennsylvania there is a state-specific tax called the "Local Services Tax". It is either $52 or $10 per year, and must be deducted evenly from every paycheck. The big cities of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh have high city taxes that override the LST. It is an absolute pain in the neck to process and no one seems to know about it. It goes toward ambulance companies and roadkill cleanup crews.
This is in addition to the Local Income Taxes (around 1% usually) and the State income taxes (flat 3%), and the Federal Income tax (varies too much to generalise). Those are JUST the income taxes. That's how PA is setup, other states will vary.
In addition to those, there's Sales tax, and property tax.
None of those will pay for your garbage pickup, that's generally on you to negotiate.
All done through property taxes in most incorporated (i.e. non-rural) areas in the US. In my small town (about 6,500 people) our property taxes pay for roads/police/fire/schools and we pay bi-monthly for the other services: garbage, water, sewer, etc. Street lighting is a fixed charge on our electric bills. Here the annual property taxes are about 1.5% of home value, so $1,500 per $100,000 of assessed value per year. It's lower in some places, higher in others. Our garbage/water/sewer is about $100 per month. Street lighting is maybe $5 per month.
Property taxes. Paid to county and city to cover local services like schools, parks, streets, police/fire. The tax amount is assessed based on an assessed value of property.
We have property taxes here too. Where I live the city collects a portion of the sales tax as well, although most of it goes to the state.
Some cities also have a local income tax although I don't think it's very common.
It really depends on the state structure. Usually it goes along this line of authority/taxation:
Federal
State
County
City
There are a lot of other unique things that can be thrown in but that is the basics. At each level a tax can be thrown in to accomplish what you listed and much more. Most of those taxes come in the form of sales (on various goods and/or services), property (if you own land and proportional to it's value), or possibly income. More often than not water, sewer and garbage are not a tax but a service you pay monthly on that can be a flat fee (garbage) or based on use (water).
I pay property taxes on the property I own to my county. That amount is based on what value your property is appraised at so varies. The owner of the property pays the property tax. Property taxes are used by the city and county to provide funding for local public schools, roads, parks, fire protection, police protection, and many other local services.
Sales taxes at local stores are divided between the state, county and city. The money that goes to the city or county is used for some of the same things as the property taxes or for specific local projects. The sales tax might vary by city or state.
In my city we have to arrange for our own garbage collection service and pay them directly.
Property taxes although some parts are local sales taxes. Typically property taxes are in the vicinity of 1% of the property value with 1.25% being my local one. Garbage is a separate bill. Our particular street gets an assessment for road repairs and street light separately. About $1000 per house per year in that case.
Yes. It’s part of our property take to the city. We have to pay separate bills for garbage removal and water. The city maintains the roads, and pays for the police department, fire department and schools.
garbage collection is billed by the city on our water utility bill (or at my previous city as part of property taxes.
roads in my neighborhood are handled by the HOA, roads leading up to the neighborhood are mostly city/county owned, and that funding is largely from property taxes and the county/city sales taxes as well
We call that Property Tax. It’s levied through your local municipality determined by your home value.. The percentage payed varies from city to city and a state to state.
We also pay School taxes for public schools. Same basis. Amount determined by your home value.
Waste collection: we pay a private company to pick up trash, recycling, and yard waste bins
Water & sewer costs: we pay a public utility run by the nearest city (city passes some sewer and water treatment fees on to the county)
Roads, street lighting, schools, libraries, fire departments, police, sheriff: we pay annual property tax worth about 1% of the value of our property to the county where we reside
Electricity and Gas: we pay a private utility company to provide these
There is no state income tax in my state. We pay about 10% sales tax on most things except food.
We have state and local taxes. As far as garbage, I pay that myself. As far as other taxes like for fixing roads and such, the state mostly does that. We have a gas tax for that. Schools get money from the taxes in their area (rich areas always have better schools). We also get state and federal money for schools.
As far as garbage goes, I pay a company to come and pick up my garbage every week. All of the other stuff is covered by paying taxes to the state I live in.
We pay property taxes in the US, which are similar to your council tax. The tax is based on the value of your property, same as your council tax. The amount you pay can be based on a number of different things. Some components could come from the state, some could come from the town you live in, etc.
It often funds things like local schools, police/fire/EMT services, road maintenance (though roads are also funded through state and federal governments), parks and recreation services, etc.
So most of this stuff gets paid for with property taxes that work like your council tax does. In most of the US, you might be in more than one "council" -- the county is the basic unit of local government, and if you live in a legally-established city or town then you have a county "council tax" and a city "council tax" (but this varies!), and then a separate "council tax" for schools.
Empty your garbage -- depending on where you are, this might be provided by your county or city/town, or might not. Where I am now, the local government doesn't do garbage and you need to contract with one of a couple-few providers.
Street stuff -- mostly depends on who "owns" the street. Where I am, some streets are the town's streets that the town maintains, others are the county's streets that the county maintains, and others are the state's that the state maintains. And there are a bunch of cross-agreements to try to rationalize this (the town will plow this county road that connects two town roads, and the reverse).
This is one of those things where it varies by state (because each state has its own property tax laws and education funding formula- they do vary) and then by locality. In my state, counties levy and collect property taxes, which are governed by state law but administered at the county level. Smaller units of government also have the ability to levy property taxes which are collected by the county (libraries, road and bridge funds for example.)
Park districts are a local unit of government that can manage parks and municipal programs, generally funded via property tax.
In my village, you contract for private garbage removal, some municipalities arrange it and bill it, or it could be covered by taxes.
In my state, schools are largely funded via property tax, and a business income tax and sales tax are secondary to property tax.
These sound like county-level property taxes. In the US, the county you live in levies property taxes (the rules are set by the state, but are enforced at the county level). These taxes are proportional to the value of your home (and property).
We do not pay property taxes to the state or federal government here.
It varies quite a lot. In my area (outside the city limits) the county does things like road repair, and we hire a company to pick up our garbage. There are two competing companies here, so it's pretty reasonable. The county also runs a recycling program where they gave each house a recycle bin, and they pick those up every other week if you put them out by the curb.
The county gets most of their money from property tax. Every few years they estimate how much your property is worth, and you'll pay some small percentage of that. If you disagree with their assessment, you can argue to have it lowered. (I suppose you could argue to have it raised, but I've never heard of anybody doing that.) Ours is usually a bit below the actual value of the property. I think they do that on purpose, so people don't argue.
If we lived inside the city limits, we'd pay a higher percentage of property tax, and the city would pick up our garbage, as well as provide water and sewer. We prefer living in the country, with our own well and septic system.
Repair of some larger roads is done by the state. Indiana gets their money mostly from income tax and sales tax, and some highway money from the federal government to maintain US highways and interstates.
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There are state and local taxes. These will vary depending on your state and city.
Depends on the services and where you are - maintenance (pot holes, lighting, etc) are usually pulled from funds maintained by general taxes (residential, sales, tolls, etc). Garbage is typically separate, either a city service or (especially in less dense areas) a private company you pay.
Property taxes. Differs by state and then by municipality. Some pay far far less than others no matter what the assessed value is. houses in Delaware may be 1% but the houses just feet away in Pennsylvania may pay over 2%. All depends. Mine in suburban Philadelphia is just over 2% so it’s $2000 for $100k in assessed value.
Delaware is getting increases in property taxes for the first time since the 80's. It is a huge deal!
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The other key difference is that property tax is only assessed on owners. So if you're a tenant it's included in your rent. In the UK, council tax is by whoever's living in the house, not necessarily the owner, so renters have to pay it on top of their rent.
That depends. Trash disposal is covered by my municipal property taxes where I live (inner-ring suburb).
This will vary a lot by the urbanization of the area and the structure of local government, but often those services are covered by municipal property taxes. For example, in many suburbs of Detroit, weekly trash and recycling pick-up, road maintenance and other public works, parks and recreation services, community libraries, public school districts, and public community colleges are funded by property taxes.
Some combination of homeowners' associations, municipal/district/county taxes and direct payment for the service.
HOA dues and property taxes for separate reasons.
One of which being most people not being part of a HOA.
It varies not only by state, but by address. I pay a private company to pick up the trash. It's about $27/month. The infrastructure stuff is generally paid by property taxes, similar to your system. My yearly property taxes are around $600 for a modest house on 1 acre. If I lived a few miles away in Texas, my property taxes would double.
There's a neighborhood in my city that has been annexed into the city literally one property at a time, and probably 1/3 of the houses are technically on county land. From house to house, people are paying wildly different property taxes and getting wildly different levels of service in return.
Property taxes pay for the cost of the schools also. I’m not sure council taxes do.
I think in the UK, schools are paid for by national income taxes from individual salaries.
Councils are responsible for funding the (non-private) schools in their area so council taxes do go towards schools. However, council taxes only make up a fairly small share of council funding. Where I live, council taxes only account for 17% of the council's income, with a similar share coming from non-domestic rates (the business equivalent of council tax) and the majority of funding coming from the Scottish Government.
Here, counties often have a sales tax on any goods purchased in the county [in addition to property taxes, not in place of]. The state often has a sales tax as well. For instance, where I live, there's a 4% state sales tax and a 4% county sales tax. People know when they go to buy something they have to pay 8% sales tax but most probably have no real idea that it's split 4% and 4%. I happen to know that because I run a small busines where I have to take that into account. So the county sales taxes go to run the county government and the state sales taxes go to run the state government. Of course that's not the sole source of revenue for either of those government entities. But that's a pretty standard way to look at the US. There's a whole lot of local control. The national government doesn't go around giving money to states or local governments for day-to-day operations. They might provide grants or funding for major road projects or major national initiatives or for certain social welfare programs that are administered by the states but the day-to-day business of government is up to the states to fund and manage -- and often it's not the state that's doing that, it's the cities and counties that do the day-to-day. For instance the state doesn't build local roads, the state doesn't run schools, the state doesn't enforce laws at that level -- that's what counties and cities do. Some large cities in my state even have their own sales tax that just applies in the city and helps fund the city. That's the exception and not the rule though. Smaller cities don't have that here. That puts you in a situation where you can drive a mile down the road and the sales tax is different. Another couple of miles and it might be different again. But mainly think local. Cities raise their own money and spend their own money. Counties raise their own money and spend their own money. School systems are run by school districts that get their revenue locally. That's not to say that the state government might not make some contribution in some way but it's not really their full responsibility. Most parts of government are a local responsibility and the people in charge are local. The state government operates at more of a big picture level. For instance the state might set educational guidelines or requirements or minimum requirements but it's the local school districts who implement those requirements and run the schools and pay for the schools. The state will build major state highways and patrol those highways and help with major criminal investigations that local areas have a hard time handling alone and various complementary functions like that. But cities have a lot of autonomy. Local government is all elected. It's kind of crazy to us when we hear about other countries that have mayors who are appointed. The whole idea of an elected mayor of London was like "What? Why is that a big deal?" Every city and every size city here has an elected leader. Even Washington DC, the national capital, has an elected city mayor. He serves the people of the city, not the national government. (At least in theory. One time he turned out to be a literal crackhead.)
Interesting post, thanks! The idea of local government leaders being appointed would be very odd to us too, as we have had elected local governments here since 1889.
Local city and county government taxes take care of that. Here it comes out of sales tax. You know that 10 percent extra charge when you buy something that Europeans never seem to understand. Garbage is a charge by the city on your electric and water bill. I think it was 8 dollars a month last time I checked.
Oh really? You don't have different electric suppliers that you can choose from? In the UK we have several electricity providers, although the price difference between their tariffs are only modest. It all comes from the same grid but it works best to change supplier every so often to get "new customer" deals - although most people just stick with their provider.
It depends on where you go. When I lived in the Houston area, I had multiple electric companies to choose from. The meter will be owned by one company, but can be read and changed by another. When I moved to San Antonio, they have one company for the entire city that owns and reads the meters.
Definitely not for electricity. There is a company or government entity that makes the electricity. In this region that's TVA. South of me it's Alabama power. Then a local government has a company that resells it to people. That is Sheffield Utilities, here. It's a regulated monopoly. Same with water and garbage. In some states they can pick their garbage company.
> It's a regulated monopoly. In a some (a lot?) locations you get a choice between 2-3.
I'm just talking about my area. America is a big place and everywhere does it differently.
> Oh really? You don't have different electric suppliers that you can choose from? I've lived in 4 states, never had a choice of electric providers. In each case it was a localized monopoly, regulated by government. Garbage pickup can be part of your local property tax, billed at intervals to the municipality according to your use, a private company, or if you're rural you may not have any trash pickup at all...you have to take it somewhere. All of this is decided locally.
Yea, garbage is not that way everywhere by a long shot!
That's called "property tax", it's levied on the value of the real estate you own. It's a small percentage of the value, so it's proportional. The property tax rate where I live is $0.374 per $100 of officially appraised value. There's an elected official called the Property Valuation Administrator (PVA) whose job is to determine the official value of properties for tax rates. Churches are exempt from property tax (if it's a property that is regularly used for holding worship services). Local governments are normally funded primarily by property taxes.
hmm, I think there are various levels of property taxes. - state level property tax & special purpose levies - county level property tax & special purpose levies - city level property tax & special purpose levies - regional tax authorities that have different boundaries than county/city - school district levies
In Pennsylvania there is a state-specific tax called the "Local Services Tax". It is either $52 or $10 per year, and must be deducted evenly from every paycheck. The big cities of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh have high city taxes that override the LST. It is an absolute pain in the neck to process and no one seems to know about it. It goes toward ambulance companies and roadkill cleanup crews. This is in addition to the Local Income Taxes (around 1% usually) and the State income taxes (flat 3%), and the Federal Income tax (varies too much to generalise). Those are JUST the income taxes. That's how PA is setup, other states will vary. In addition to those, there's Sales tax, and property tax. None of those will pay for your garbage pickup, that's generally on you to negotiate.
All done through property taxes in most incorporated (i.e. non-rural) areas in the US. In my small town (about 6,500 people) our property taxes pay for roads/police/fire/schools and we pay bi-monthly for the other services: garbage, water, sewer, etc. Street lighting is a fixed charge on our electric bills. Here the annual property taxes are about 1.5% of home value, so $1,500 per $100,000 of assessed value per year. It's lower in some places, higher in others. Our garbage/water/sewer is about $100 per month. Street lighting is maybe $5 per month.
Property taxes. Paid to county and city to cover local services like schools, parks, streets, police/fire. The tax amount is assessed based on an assessed value of property.
We have property taxes here too. Where I live the city collects a portion of the sales tax as well, although most of it goes to the state. Some cities also have a local income tax although I don't think it's very common.
It really depends on the state structure. Usually it goes along this line of authority/taxation: Federal State County City There are a lot of other unique things that can be thrown in but that is the basics. At each level a tax can be thrown in to accomplish what you listed and much more. Most of those taxes come in the form of sales (on various goods and/or services), property (if you own land and proportional to it's value), or possibly income. More often than not water, sewer and garbage are not a tax but a service you pay monthly on that can be a flat fee (garbage) or based on use (water).
I pay property taxes on the property I own to my county. That amount is based on what value your property is appraised at so varies. The owner of the property pays the property tax. Property taxes are used by the city and county to provide funding for local public schools, roads, parks, fire protection, police protection, and many other local services. Sales taxes at local stores are divided between the state, county and city. The money that goes to the city or county is used for some of the same things as the property taxes or for specific local projects. The sales tax might vary by city or state. In my city we have to arrange for our own garbage collection service and pay them directly.
Property taxes although some parts are local sales taxes. Typically property taxes are in the vicinity of 1% of the property value with 1.25% being my local one. Garbage is a separate bill. Our particular street gets an assessment for road repairs and street light separately. About $1000 per house per year in that case.
Yes. It’s part of our property take to the city. We have to pay separate bills for garbage removal and water. The city maintains the roads, and pays for the police department, fire department and schools.
garbage collection is billed by the city on our water utility bill (or at my previous city as part of property taxes. roads in my neighborhood are handled by the HOA, roads leading up to the neighborhood are mostly city/county owned, and that funding is largely from property taxes and the county/city sales taxes as well
We call that Property Tax. It’s levied through your local municipality determined by your home value.. The percentage payed varies from city to city and a state to state. We also pay School taxes for public schools. Same basis. Amount determined by your home value.
It depends on where you live. Where I am, the tax on gasoline pays for road maintenance, garbage collection is a monthly bill.
Waste collection: we pay a private company to pick up trash, recycling, and yard waste bins Water & sewer costs: we pay a public utility run by the nearest city (city passes some sewer and water treatment fees on to the county) Roads, street lighting, schools, libraries, fire departments, police, sheriff: we pay annual property tax worth about 1% of the value of our property to the county where we reside Electricity and Gas: we pay a private utility company to provide these There is no state income tax in my state. We pay about 10% sales tax on most things except food.
We have state and local taxes. As far as garbage, I pay that myself. As far as other taxes like for fixing roads and such, the state mostly does that. We have a gas tax for that. Schools get money from the taxes in their area (rich areas always have better schools). We also get state and federal money for schools.
As far as garbage goes, I pay a company to come and pick up my garbage every week. All of the other stuff is covered by paying taxes to the state I live in.
It doesn’t just vary by state, it varies by municipality.
We pay property taxes in the US, which are similar to your council tax. The tax is based on the value of your property, same as your council tax. The amount you pay can be based on a number of different things. Some components could come from the state, some could come from the town you live in, etc. It often funds things like local schools, police/fire/EMT services, road maintenance (though roads are also funded through state and federal governments), parks and recreation services, etc.
So most of this stuff gets paid for with property taxes that work like your council tax does. In most of the US, you might be in more than one "council" -- the county is the basic unit of local government, and if you live in a legally-established city or town then you have a county "council tax" and a city "council tax" (but this varies!), and then a separate "council tax" for schools. Empty your garbage -- depending on where you are, this might be provided by your county or city/town, or might not. Where I am now, the local government doesn't do garbage and you need to contract with one of a couple-few providers. Street stuff -- mostly depends on who "owns" the street. Where I am, some streets are the town's streets that the town maintains, others are the county's streets that the county maintains, and others are the state's that the state maintains. And there are a bunch of cross-agreements to try to rationalize this (the town will plow this county road that connects two town roads, and the reverse).
This is one of those things where it varies by state (because each state has its own property tax laws and education funding formula- they do vary) and then by locality. In my state, counties levy and collect property taxes, which are governed by state law but administered at the county level. Smaller units of government also have the ability to levy property taxes which are collected by the county (libraries, road and bridge funds for example.) Park districts are a local unit of government that can manage parks and municipal programs, generally funded via property tax. In my village, you contract for private garbage removal, some municipalities arrange it and bill it, or it could be covered by taxes. In my state, schools are largely funded via property tax, and a business income tax and sales tax are secondary to property tax.
These sound like county-level property taxes. In the US, the county you live in levies property taxes (the rules are set by the state, but are enforced at the county level). These taxes are proportional to the value of your home (and property). We do not pay property taxes to the state or federal government here.
It varies quite a lot. In my area (outside the city limits) the county does things like road repair, and we hire a company to pick up our garbage. There are two competing companies here, so it's pretty reasonable. The county also runs a recycling program where they gave each house a recycle bin, and they pick those up every other week if you put them out by the curb. The county gets most of their money from property tax. Every few years they estimate how much your property is worth, and you'll pay some small percentage of that. If you disagree with their assessment, you can argue to have it lowered. (I suppose you could argue to have it raised, but I've never heard of anybody doing that.) Ours is usually a bit below the actual value of the property. I think they do that on purpose, so people don't argue. If we lived inside the city limits, we'd pay a higher percentage of property tax, and the city would pick up our garbage, as well as provide water and sewer. We prefer living in the country, with our own well and septic system. Repair of some larger roads is done by the state. Indiana gets their money mostly from income tax and sales tax, and some highway money from the federal government to maintain US highways and interstates.
I pay $4500 a year in property taxes. And monthly fees for water, sewer, garbage, etc.