The
recently passed legislation that mandates property be assessed on a four year
cycle will likely reduce the amount of appeals seen after future assessments.
Bartholomew County officials say they have
settled about half of the property tax appeals they received during 2012
reassessments.
As we
reported in April, this year’s property tax assessment was the first
one in Bartholomew County since 2002. That meant a lot of people saw big
increases in their bill. More than 2,000 people appealed and Bartholomew County
Assessor Lew Wilson says the county still has about half those to go
through.
“We’ve so far got almost a 95 percent rate
of settling what we call informally without the people having to go to the
property tax board,” he says.
Wilson says he expects the assessor’s
office to settle most of the remaining appeals in the next three months, but
says there will be a few cases that will require much more time.
Indiana recently passed legislation that
mandates property be assessed on a four year cycle. After wading through
hundreds of appeals and with many more to go, Wilson says he was excited when
the legislation passed.
“The four-year actual rotation that they’re
going to start doing now is going to make for, I think, much better assessments.
More quality, more accuracy” he says.
The next reassessment is in 2014 and will
start property assessment in Indiana on the four year cycle.
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