They had to reduce rates because of the sales tax increase, so they just jacked up the values on everyone.
Property Tax Increase
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They had to reduce rates because of the sales tax increase, so they just jacked up the values on everyone.
Yeah, but it's Missouri, sooo...
And as I already mentioned, if Polk County really does that they aren't very good at it. I bought my house almost 4 years ago for $200k. At that time it was assessed at $168k with the full finished basement unknown to the assessor. Fast forward to this year, we just accepted an offer for just under $240k, and it's currently assessed for $178k (still no mention of finished basement).
And all of those Yes voters fall for it time and time again, thinking they're going to get "property tax relief," not remembering or understanding how the game is played.
I used to love to listen to city council talk about not raising taxes for several years. Rate stayed the same but assessments kept increasing all the time. Worst part was these bumbling fools probably actually believed they weren’t raising taxes by holding the rate the same but watching assessments rocket up.
Holy Cow County Supervisors making 100,000 that's criminal.
I'm guessing that the low full time population and a boatload of really nice houses is why West Okoboji mill rate is so low.
Look at the dollars taxed. Everything else is smoke and mirrors.
It’s like these community block grants also. They take local and state tax dollars to refurbish these homes for people who can’t afford to fix up their homes. When done these houses are vastly improved. Assessor comes through and jacks up the assessment on the house, their taxes shoot up and they can’t afford to pay the property taxes. Love the wonderful help they get here.
My experience as a former city councilman was the $25,000 CDBG rehab program only increased the assessment by around $10,000. With the rollback, the increase was around $180 per year. Most of the houses got new roofs. Much of the spending was for repairs and not considered an improvement. Not one recipient bitched about the increased taxes. They were truly appreciative of the assistance.
I would rather have my tax money spent helping those in need rather than on corporate welfare.
25k?, the ones I listened to were the city dumping 20-25k and other sources were in that 200-250k from the non owner sources. Believe it was city out 10% down.
They had roofs, complete new electric, some plumbing, and other things I don’t remember. I know one lady got it sided. I remember the city one time was banging on doors and begging people to do it (they had to front some of the expense for this one) so they wouldn’t lose any money. If they couldn’t get enough, their amount stayed the same but the match went down.
Our road looks like that today. Almost stopped to take a photo. Just need someone to find a model T to get it stuck and recreate the photo.
County Assessors, like most of the employees, are not elected.