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Property Tax Season

Property tax rate in the Philippines is usually 1% in the provinces and 2% of the assessed value in the big city. I'm looking at you Metro Manila. I paid my brother's property tax today. It hasn't been paid since 2016 when we last paid it at Montalban. The assessed value of the property increases year after year. You can't stop that, especially as the town progresses into a city. My brother's real property does not have improvements. So it is just a matter of knowing the lot measurement in square meters. 

I also pay "our" lot where we live, my mother and I. Unlike Lino's lot ours have improvements in the form of two houses. The old family house sits infront. It's the first thing you see from the road. It is now being rented out to commercial tenants and residents. Mom and I live behind the property in a newer but smaller house. That's all we need now. Compared to my brother's property, this is bigger and has improvements. The location of the property also have an effect on the assessed value. This one's a lot closer to the main road crossing the town. 

True market value is higher than assessed value of the property and it is always moving. If you actually sold the land that is its market value. The assessed value is a government mandated approximation of value of land.  

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