A personal property tax is imposed by state or local governments on certain assets that can be touched and moved such as cars, livestock, or equipment. Personal property includes assets other than land or permanent structures such as buildings. These are considered to be real property.
The state of Georgia provides the following exemptions: All personal clothing and effects, household furniture, furnishings, equipment, appliances, and other personal property used within the home, if not held for sale, rental or other commercial use, shall be exempt from all ad valorem taxation.
Business Personal Property Tax is a tax assessed on tangible personal property businesses own. This type of property includes equipment, furniture, computers, machinery, and inventory, among other items not permanently attached to a building or land.
You can rent property to your business when you own real estate or personal property that your business can use. If you own a C corporation and want to take advantages of certain tax benefits, then the transaction should be treated as an arm's length transaction and should have a valid business purpose.
Business personal property (BPP) insurance covers the equipment, furniture, fixtures and inventory that you own, use or rent inside your workspace. Basically, it covers almost everything except the building itself.
California's property tax rate is 1% of assessed value (also applies to real property) plus any bonded indebtedness voted in by the taxpayers.
Business Personal Property includes all supplies, equipment and any fixtures used in the operation of a business. Exempt from reporting are business inventory, application software and licensed vehicles (except Special Equipment (SE) tagged and off-road vehicles).
In general, business personal property is all property owned, possessed, controlled, or leased by a business except real property and inventory items. Business personal property includes, but is not limited to: Machinery. Computers. Equipment (e.g. FAX machines, photocopiers)
Personal property is distinguished from real property in that it is usually movable and not permanently affixed as are land, buildings, and vines.
California Constitution Article XIII and Revenue and Taxation Code section 201 state that all property is taxable unless it is stated that it is exempt. Business personal property is not exempt.