Real Estate Tax Assessments
Today I spoke with a few of my friends about their property tax assessments.
Jefferson County recently sent out their assessments for this year. Ours went up by a ridiculous amount and I had to ask a few of my friends whether they had seen similar increases. They all reported the same thing. Their assessments were raised by $50,000, $60,000, even $150,000 from the previous year.
Needless to say, we are all going to appeal.
The question is – why? Given what we all know to be a major drop in real estate values, why would Jefferson County have picked this year to increase our assessments by such large amounts.
We all came to the same conclusion – they need the money…. I think this is also why there are so many police cars out their handing out speeding tickets. They need the revenue. And they are taking it out on us.