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Hopefully, this is one thing that you would have agreed upon when you made this living arrangement or have put it into a written lease. The government will be glad to accept the taxes from whoever pays them. If nobody pays them, penalties and interest are added to the taxes. And if it lasts long enough, the house will be sold at a tax sale and all of you will lose the house.

Unless the person who owns the house WANTS to lose the house, he or she should make sure the taxes are paid. You can decide among yourselves who is going to do it.

Note: The legal or beneficial owner is the only one who can take a federal income tax deduction for real estate taxes paid. If someone else pays it, neither party will get to take a deduction.

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Just to clarify for the person above, if you DON'T want to lose the house you should pay the tax. Hey, if you haven't decided who is paying yet, why don't you pick your next door neighbor! What a concept!

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