The State Board requires assessors to file an annual report on assessment changes. The Board also periodically appraises selected properties in each municipality for use in developing equalization rates. Assessors review these appraisals and submit evidence to support any disagreements on appraised values or property inventories. It is up to individual property owners to monitor their own assessments. Taxpayers who feel they are not being fairly assessed should meet with their assessor before the tentative assessment roll is established.
Assessors are interested only in fairly assessing property in their assessing using.
If an assessment is correct and the tax bill still seems too high, the assessor cannot change that. Complaints to the assessor must be about how property is assessed. Taxpayers unhappy with growing property tax bills should not be concerned only with assessments. They should also examine the scope of budgets and expenditures of the taxing jurisdictions and address those issues in appropriate and available public forums. Equalization Rate - 106.