Indiana

Tall Township Tales

By Abdul Hakim-Shabazz

Marion County Assessor Greg Bowes is disputing claims by the township assessors that the property tax appeals are proving their initial assessments were more correct than the reassessed property values.  

The assessors, who are fighting a proposal to consolidate their office functions to the county level, say many of the residential appeals show homes were over-assessed and the County can?t do a better job so citizens should oppose the consolidation referendum.

Bowes says the townships? math is misleading.  He says while some reassessment appeals have come back closer to the township figures, he says 75-percent of all the property in Marion County was not appealed and the County captured nearly $2 billion of  assessed value missed by the assessors.

In addition, Bowes also says only 10 percent of the appeals have been completed, so the township assessors assertions that the reassessments were bad is premature at best.

Full post as published by Indiana Barrister on October 31, 2008 (boomark / email).