Montgomery County homeowners are receiving their property tax bills in the mail, and jaws are crashing to the floor countywide. A super double-whammy budget by the County Council in May not only hiked property taxes yet again, but also eliminated the Income Tax Offset Credit that a vast majority of homeowners were previously eligible for. The end result has been, among homeowners I've spoken to around the county, property tax bills anywhere from 17% to 25% higher than last year. Be sure to thank your representative comrades on the Montgomery Commie Council.
Predictably, the hardest-hit areas are downcounty, in Bethesda, Rockville, and Silver Spring. Many Rockville residents are looking at $12,000 tax bills. "It was about $12,000 last year," lamented a Bethesda homeowner holding a tax bill for more than $15,000. As I have noted for many years now, Montgomery County property taxes have increasingly become a second mortgage for homeowners. It's simply incredible that the Council would slam homeowners with tax increases this high in the middle of an affordability crisis. Most of this money ends up in the pockets of the Montgomery County cartel, the puppeteers behind our Marxist County Council.
Don't forget, in May the Council also added a new wealth tax on the "rich," whom our stuck-in-the-1960s Council defines as (in Dr. Evil "one million dollars" voice) anyone making over $150,000. That's only $18,000 higher than the median income of $132,450 in Montgomery County! $150,000 is just squeaking by and surviving, especially with a County Council of overpaid, underworked oligarchs who draw an annual salary of $167,172 from you, the taxpayer, for a few hours of "work" per week. One of the best kept secrets of the Council is that many members over the years have used the lax Council schedule, and their overinflated salaries, to put themselves through graduate or law school at your expense. If only you were as criminally street smart as the County Council, you might throw the bums out on Election Day!
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The beginning of the end. Self employed health insurance now runs over 3K/month while illegals get it for free. Add another 2K to 3K per month for property taxes, owning a house in BCC requires a minimum mid-six figure income.
Yep. Just got mine. Like Governor Hogan said, the Dems never met a tax they didn't like. Thanks County Council cabal. What a joke.
My wife and I are retired. Living on Social Security and our savings and a VERY modest pension. My income only increases because of the annual SS COLA (typically in 2.5% - 3.0% range). In their infinite wisdom, the County Council pushed this property tax hike on us so that our annual bill INCREASED by $1,095. It beggars belief. Are they really that greedy? That dumb? And people in this country illegally are receiving my tax dollars! I want out.
Move to FL as I did.
my taxes in 20816 are up over 65% since 2022 - vote these clown shows out!
Marxistbund Montgomery County
iLLeGaLs gEt iT fOr fREe. 2022 called and wants its dog whistle for illiterates back.
County tax rate in 2022: 0.8856
County tax rate in 2026: 0.9210
The vast majority of your increase is because your assessment went up. Either you weren't paying your fair share previously or your home value increased a ton. My increase over that time was a bit of both (though my current assessment is still a couple hundred grand below actual market value).
This place has turned to trash. The schools declined, the roads are awful and right of ways and roadsides are not maintained and are overrun with trash and debris not to
mention the overgrown weeds and trees. Where is this money going? We don’t get services from paying these ridiculous taxes, we pay our bills but the things we care about aren’t covered by are taxes anymore they go to handouts to those that don’t care about the things we do.
Must be an awfully boring place. No Marylanders are reading Florida's hyperlocal blogs.
Keep in mind that this tax increase won't fix the structural revenue problems this county and state have placed all property owners into. Remember when the progressives said $15/hour will solve the "living wage" gap? Well despite their education they never learned basic economics.
Take a look at the new fees that took place on July 1st. Has anyone looked at their car registration fees? Utility bills, (some of the highest in the country)? Car insurance thanks to allowing Illegals driving with state sponsored insurance, MAIF, if they have any at all. Oh and their pet vanity projects like the PL and The Peninsula with a new light-rail proposal in Baltimore. Sooner or later they'll run out of other people's money.
7:21 is a true novice in MD tax knowledge. MD undervalues and over rates so owners can't successfully contest the accessments. Contrast this with DC and VA which base the amount on a market value accessment. They've stated this at the hearing which is the 2nd step owners get in contesting the tax.
If you don't get it, you don't get it.
@7:11 Don't go away mad, just go back to work. This is a subject way above your pay grade.
I like all these comments except for the one idiot response who himself is probably an illegal who doesn't like being called out.
Ok not sure what you mean, “not paying your fair share” in this comment.
Amen 7-11
Soo as the rest of society experiences an increase over time, for goods and services, you expect your tax rate to remain steady or decline? ROTFLAMO! Please have your doctor prescribe an anti-delusional drug for you.
I am aware but my opinion is your assessed value should never go higher than your purchase price.
Please educate yourselves: https://www.nilc.org/articles/can-undocumented-immigrants-access-health-care/
The property tax bill for my Bethesda home jumped 17.0% from that of last year.
So 10:14/10:22 practice reductio ad absurdum so any argument outside the narrow lines of their understanding gets a demonstration of ignorance. You either skipped econ 101 or you just don't want to know.
Please educate yourself. It's called the ER which by law cannot refuse service and since they have no legal presence, the likelihood of repayment is zero.
Unbelievable; liberals read some sponsored article by an immigration advocacy group and pass it around like a waterpipe. Grow up and read something that doesn't have illustrations that require crayons.
This is sort of like people complaining about the weather. Everyone complains, but nobody does anything.
We all complain, but don’t change the way we vote.
Most people don't write a single check, but pay as part of their mortgage, which is directly removed in small pieces as escrow along with their house insurance from their bank account. If they don't physically balance their checking account at the end of each month, they won't notice the payment went up, let alone try to figure out why. The politicians know this and that is why they keep increasing spending and increasing taxes.
Incredibly silly observation and not even true
Go to an ER on a Friday or Saturday night, even here in tony MC and look around.... you'll see many 'new citizens.' I bet you not only won't get real names but you'll never see a bona fide ID. Go look, ask any objective honest health pro.
Yes, because ER visits are common among this population. I work in hospital settings. You must be a doctor as well right?
@5:24 This is because the left votes for anyone with the D regardless of policy. The dangerous exceptions seem to be the rise of DSA candidates in NY and now the DC mayor. The voting demographics are odd in that lower to middle-class minorities are not the ones who supported these socialists but it was the upper income white voters. Chickens are coming home to roost for a lot of us thanks to these Karen's.
Actually many people are doing something, they're leaving! Including myself. My property tax dropped this year to about $1,500. On a house with twice the square footage of our Bethesda house.
Many states/counties cap valulations at the most recent sale value...it's not rocket science.
I see the conservative NIMBY boomers are especially triggered here. Maybe the boomers could afford their taxes if they didn't blow their money on lattes and Netflix?
Your tax rate goes up because your assessment goes up, because corporations and private equity are gobbling up housing, jacking up the prices, and creating artificial scarcity... but of course conservatives never want to hold private industry accountable for their actions.
It's always hilarious when they try to blame "illegals" (they mean nonwhite people). How many "illegals" are buying up the multi-million dollar houses in Bethesda?
Obviously you don't own property because it's the rate per 1000 of accessed value that is under discussion. This isn't a difficult concept but once again you fail.
@10:10 accessments aside because you're clueless how it works, (rates vs value), when those in charge use taxpayer dollars on illegals ANYWHERE in MC/MD, the money has to be raised from somewhere. Unlike you who lived off their parents, now the taxpayers, there is a concept of finite resources so spending in one place means that money is no longer available elsewhere so what to do? BCC is essentially the ATM machine of MD so while illegals don't live here, the money needs to be made up by others.
Truly sad that this needs to be explained but liberals think money grows on trees like electricity comes from wall sockets. Grow up grifter.
3:18 PM Where are you getting your insurance from? If you're on the MD/ACA exchange, your rates skyrocketed this year because of Trump's and the R's big ugly bill that stripped down the premium tax credits.
You can also blame the bloated greedy insurance companies that squeeze every dollar out of its customers by denying and delaying care.
6:23: The greedy price-gouging by all types of insurers in the state is aided and abetted by the elected officials they've bought off with fat checks, as I reported last year. I included a list of the donations to the governor and each Montgomery County delegate and senator where applicable.
6:23 doesn't want to address the root cause of insurance costs which is Obamas ACA which essentially gave the keys to the kingdom to the very insurance companies you're lamenting. Far be it for a TDS inflicted progressive to blame one of their own that most people can see as the true catalyst of healthcare costs that we have today. I get it, put all the illegals on subsidized healthcare with higher costs for everyone else, (except those in charge) is a blatant effort to collapse the system to get single payer.
Go seek some help for your TDS and come back after rehab.
Yes, 'A' did just fall off the turnip truck, but he fell into a cush gubmint job and is beaming with new created facts and wishes to educate us. Kinda scary from thus taxpayer's perspective.
@1:55 it's assessed, not accessed. English isn't a difficult concept but once again you fail.
@3:13 "wah wah wah, brown people live in MD" get over it snowflake. Also, you're welcome for my service :)
4:06 classic ad hominem....no factual rebuttal?
@7:48 Maybe you have a future as a spell checker! Nah, they also expect results.
No relies to rates vs values because the concept is foreign to grifters who live off the backs of real workers.
@10:26 you're welcome for my service :)
@10:38 you're welcome for my service :)
We're not forgetting that the government drone, 12:35, is supposed to be working. You completely make the case for DOGE.
12:33 is the poster Chile for government waste
@1:06 you're welcome for my service :)
@1:07 *child
You're welcome for my service :)
@7:10 Actually the public is welcome for 1:07's exposure of your waste, fraud and abuse of federal tax dollars!
@7:10 Only a self absorbed federal worker would celebrate themselves for wasting taxpayer dollars. The only difference between the grifter and a bank robber is the firearm.
@8:38 you're still welcome for my service :)
@1:19 you're welcome for my service :)
The taxpayers are welcome for my exposure of waste, fraud and abuse!
This latest tax increase is indisputable proof that the majority of the county residents are gluttons for punishments and whining wimps.
@5:32 you're welcome for my service :)
It's Monday so when you're at "work" try and keep up!
What do useless government workers do during the workweek?
@5:03 you're welcome for my service :)
You SHOULD know the answer to that hands down!
Someone should suggest to those in the portrait that the hammer and sickle can also be used to increase the productivity.
@7:41 the grifter needs help! Don't know if anyone can cure your racist views.
@4:39 is speaking in the third person I see. You're welcome for my service :)
@2:26 how would know the difference? Get back to work
@5:32 you're welcome for my service :)
@9:32 still waiting for the analysis on rates vs value and why they don't use a market value figure.
Man, first they took our paying jobs, then they took our blog post commenting jobs.
How else those clowns are going to get a salary raise?
The bus goes bump bump hurray
More humps are coming our way!
https://bethesdamagazine.com/2026/07/23/elrich-offers-updates-on-lower-speed-limits-road-safety-throughout-montgomery-county/
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