>>680209It's about concealing your improvements, so the taxman doesn't hammer you. I live in a county that is ridiculous about nickeling and diming people to death. I heard about a guy that installed a short antenna to get better tv reception and ran guy wires to small 18"X18" concrete pads in addition to the 18"X18" pad that the antenna sat on. The county increased his taxes for building five "patios" on his property. When he complained, they told him "What do you care, we're only charging you $5 a piece."
My rage when my little worthless county is responsible for more than half of all the tax protests for the entire state, because of the shady ways they do things. I went to a tax protest court hearing, and the state hearing officer turned purple with rage, when he asked my local tax assessor why they increased my 40 acre property in $27,000 evaluation during one year, and the local tax assessor could only shrug his shoulders and say "I don't know."
So now if put down a concrete pad as a base for something, I cover it with gravel, because gravel driveway tax evaluations don't cost anything compared to concrete, and I can have a nice level driveway without getting eaten alive by the parasites.
