Got Your Tax Bill Yet??

I was slammed too.  I called the assesor's office and I asked them why my house value went up when it is a decling market.  They said because the state is saying the market trend is going up.  Yea right!!  Anyway they also said that the tax rate went up as well.  I asked them if it was capped this year at 1.5% because that is what mine worked out to and they said yes.  Next year it should tbe capped at 1%.  I plan on appealing if they raise my property value next year so that I am paying the same or more next year.   They will probably just raise the tax rate to 7% on everyone.  If your assessment works out to be 2.5% I would either call the treasurer or assessor and find out what is going on since they spefically told me it was capped this year at 1.5%

 Tomorrow I'm going to "Crash' their system,,,,,

 Im going to pay my taxes in  cold cash,

Yep,,,,all my taxes will be paid in $1,000.00 dollar bills,, as much as we got hit,,, It will take them days to count the money out.

I'm still paying for the wheel tax "squeal tax" horse trailers,,, boat trailers,, farm trailers,,, my truck,,, her truck... just like Deliverance part two,,, Squeal,,,,,,,,,

Better pile on some more cash since COIT is now the law!

That's why the property tax caps were a joke. They are a floating tax.  In Madison County, the AVs are trended up every year by 6 - 7 %, except when they go out and do an actual on-site valuation. So that means that you will always pay more property tax every year, because your assessed valuation goes up automatically every year.  Now that they've done away with the township trustees and assessors, when do you think you will get a real, honest valuation?  Try 'never', from now on.

The trending is supposed to be done according to the market value of housing.  We all know the market value of our Madison County homes has gone down.  Who is going to make the county justify the upward trending?  Who will hold them accountable?  This is the legitimate function of the local news media.  

Will the Herald Bulletin do that?  Will it do an investigation of the trending and evaluation systems?

This is another way to bend us over the barrel for the city! I am so pissed I am seeing red. I will be paying them a visit at the office, since history shows using a telephone is just inviting more frustration.

I got ours and it went up 51.93% from last year. 

I called the assessor's office and told her, even though it said, "This Is Not A Bill", there must be an error.  She gave me the same 'chin music' as she no doubt gave the rest of you that called and then I said, tongue in cheek, "Could painting our mailbox really add that much value to our house in a down market?"  She didn't think that was funny.

There's another $1,200 going out that I was planning on spending on new struts and shocks for my car necessitated by our fine county roads.

Try directing your anger in the right direction.

Who was it that "fixed" property tax.  Who "fixed" it and increased the state sales tax by 1% to make up for the loss in revenue?

There's enough blame to go around. It was obviously a political move to share the pain.  Mitch was successful in pushing it off on the lesser units of government. The legislature voted it in. What were Austin's, Reske's and Lanane's and Lutz's votes on that issue? Hmmmm?  And Lanane is a key man in Anderson as well, although his position there is appointed rather than elected.  So the chickens are coming home to roost in Anderson, Benny.

And when push comes to shove, the backlash is felt where the citizen's have the most power - at the local level.  Therefore, it's a real motivator for the citizens to make the politicians feel their pain.  Just wait til those mid-term elections.  

So Benny did your go up or down?  I am sure your connections got yours lowered.

Check the website for property tax.  Ockomon is equal to mine 3000.00 but Lanane is no where close.