State Board of Tax Commissioners Website Back to the bill. The parcel number, duplicate number, and property description are all ways for the assessor, auditor and treasurer to identify the parcel of property to be taxed. Back to the bill. A unit is a local government, a county, township, city or town, school corporation, library district or other special district. A taxing district is an area with a particular combination of units, and a particular tax rate.
All taxpayers live in a county, a township and a school corporation.
Most live in cities or towns, library districts and one or more special districts. The total tax rate is the sum of the tax rates of all the units in which the property resides. The tax district is an area within the jurisdiction of a particular county, township, school corporation and other units. The total tax rate is also known as the gross tax rate. A property will be in the state, of course, and in a county, township and school corporation.