How are your shipping containers taxed?

[bluedog225]

I just got off the phone with the tax people. They thought I was living inside one of my shipping containers. I sent in an affidavit and some photographs showing the conex was clearly full of junk. And they adjusted it to storage. All good.

I asked him about how shipping containers were taxed. He said they were taxed as structures, even if not attached to the ground. We briefly discussed the difference between a shipping container and a travel trailer. He said, that’s just the way they do it.

I was a little surprised. My understanding was that things attached to real property were subject to real property tax. While moveable personal property was not subject to real property tax.

End of the day, the tax office was fair about the other evaluations and I’m not going to pursue it this year. Maybe I’ll pick it up later.

Are your shipping containers taxed?

 

[liliysdad]

They aren’t. Portable building and containers are not taxed.

 

[finn]

Varies by state. There’s no national rule that applies across the board no matter where you live.

 

[mm08822]

So look into what is legal for your state before you go back to the local tax office.

 

[Stuart in MN]

Sounds like it's time to put some wheels on your Conex.

 

[OccupantRJ]

I just got off the phone with the tax people. They thought I was living inside one of my shipping containers. I sent in an affidavit and some photographs showing the conex was clearly full of junk. And they adjusted it to storage. All good.

I asked him about how shipping containers were taxed. He said they were taxed as structures, even if not attached to the ground. We briefly discussed the difference between a shipping container and a travel trailer. He said, that’s just the way they do it.

I was a little surprised. My understanding was that things attached to real property were subject to real property tax. While moveable personal property was not subject to real property tax.

End of the day, the tax office was fair about the other evaluations and I’m not going to pursue it this year. Maybe I’ll pick it up later.

Are your shipping containers taxed?

No container here, but there is a storage dry van semi trailer parked at the back of the property at my son’s house that I gave him when we sold the house to him and it is not taxed. Hell, in the late 70’s when I first got married, dogs were taxed at a flat rate in another nearby county. Female dogs had a higher tax. $1 for male, $2 for females. Not a joke.

 

[DocsMachine]

Female dogs had a higher tax. $1 for male, $2 for females. Not a joke.

-Did you ***** about it?

Doc.

 

[OccupantRJ]

-Did you ***** about it?

Doc.

Not me, we didn’t have a dog at the time.

 

[whateg01]

Sounds like it's time to put some wheels on your Conex.

Then there will be property tax, like the TT

 

[liliysdad]

Then there will be property tax, like the TT

Not a thing in many states

 

[Carchie]

Texas Central Appraisal Districts (CADs) have gotten incredibly aggressive with this lately. If an appraiser sees a conex box on satellite imagery or from the road, they immediately slap it on the tax roll as an "improvement," regardless of whether it’s on a foundation. It’s a total headache, but glad they at least dropped the residential assessment for you.

 

[Lassen Forge]

-Did you ***** about it?

Prolly not - that dog don't hunt. (Ain't that a *****??)

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Hunters pump tons of money into training hunting dogs here (deer, boar, truffles, birts, etc.) and pay like a VAT style tax to the "foresteria" (wildlife control) for the privilege... but a well trained dog can make you a forkton of money. (It;s like the "puppy production tax" on ******* in some US states.... )

I'd love to have a good hunter, but man, I'd sooner own a boat.

 

[rooster59]

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[karoc]

In Sabine County Tx, if it’s just chicken coop with roof it’s tax, if storm comes through and knocks down that chicken coop but roof is still there or on ground, its tax but can protest. You have to do leg work. They will come on your property unless you put up NO TRESPASS signs. Come around every 3 yrs

 

[zak77]

Mass. law states anything attatched to and/or situated on your land is subject to tax, whether real or personal. So we've coverted all the bases. It's a cat and mouse game where laws are in place, people find loopholes around them, then the loopholes gets closed and the process starts again.

 

[Mike65]

Here in Henry County, Va it states that shipping containers are classified as tangible personal property. Whether they are taxed or not depends on how you use it & its permanance.

 

[Jakeweldsalittle]

I value them as a shed here in PA basically. Unless they are finished out as living space like a camp. We value all sheds whether they are "moveable" or not. My argument is everything is moveable. I've seen houses moved down the street, but they are still taxable. We do not value travel trailers that are licensed though. There has to be some intention on the landowner to make a building permanent. Unless a shipping container is actively being put on and off a trailer and being used as such, I value it. At the end of the day, I'm talking roughly $50 a year in taxes. I always tell people it's better than a storage unit (not on your own property) at $50 a month.

 

[Codyboy]

Should not be taxed unless it's on a slab. Mine is not taxed as an improvement.

They are subject to sales tax when bought or sold. But I'm sure you knew that already.