Would You Bury Your Ex Wife On Your Property to Avoid Taxes?

[Anonymous]

Cemetery companies are also exempt from paying any real estate taxes, rates, and assessments, or personal property taxes on their lands. This also includes business taxes, sales taxes, income taxes, and inheritance taxes. In New Jersey Law Revision Commission, they describe a "cemetery company" as an individual, "corporation, association," or another group that "owns or operates a cemetery," but it doesn't incorporate a religious organization that "owns a cemetery which restricts burials to members of that religion or their families" as long as the group has a "certificate of authority for the cemetery."

Yes

No

[SaoirseS]

Laws vary from state to state. Where I live, most of what you've written applies regarding cemetery tax exemptions. The only difference is they have to collect state sales tax on merchandise such as vaults, grave liners, and memorials (markers). Some cemeteries require families to use their particular style of markers and purchase from them, and to buy vaults and liners from them. The cemeteries collect the sales tax on those items and then pays the state and county coffers. Burial rights (plots) and services are not taxed. Burials on private property are legally permissible with some restrictions and permit requirements, but generally speaking they are not hard to do.

[AviatorTom]

You'd spend a fortune doing all the required legal things like getting permits and certificates. It wouldn't be worth it to save a few bucks in your property taxes.

[Blueeyes81]

Do you like paperwork and red tape because there will be a lot of it in order to do this.

[Anonymous]

It wouldn't matter because if my girlfriend died, I'd get in the grave with her. I have nothing to live for without her

[BobSansMal]

How about to avoid criminal prosecution?

[AndrésC64]

It's illegal most places.

[strateguy632]

not.