Buddy Johnson's Tax Problems

Note: See property photos below

Unit PH 102, Rivo at Ringling Condo, Sarasota

  • Did not pay the $7,338 property tax bill due in March. The bill is now considered delinquent.
  • Bought the 13th floor condo in December 2006, paid $476,800. Has put it up for sale. Asking Price: $440,000.

19.98 acres off Thonotosassa Road, Plant City

  • Did not pay the $1,682 property tax bill due in March. The bill is now considered delinquent.
  • Sought $25,000 homestead exemption in February, but ruled ineligible because he owns the property not under his own name but under a corporate title, Fort Bully East.
  • Charging a cow exhibitor $20 a year to lease the property to let 12 cows graze on the land; seeking an agricultural “greenbelt’’ exemption that would reduce next year’s tax bill from $12,626 to $120. Property appraiser has until July to rule on the exemption request.

2815 Cherry Tree Lane, Plant City

  • Late paying property taxes on this parcel in 2004.
  • Did not pay property taxes in 2005 and 2006.
  • Upon sale of home in 2007, paid $1,122 in past due taxes, plus penalties, fees and interest.
  • Tax collector discovered calculation error and notified Johnson last September that he l owed $2,052. Johnson never responded to that bill. Now being charged 18 percent a year on the unpaid amount.

Buddy Johnson's Tax Problems 04/09/08 [Last modified: Monday, April 14, 2008 10:35am]

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