Real Estate Property Taxes and Assessment Loopholes
Blanket assessments are made in a community to re-assess the property tax. Little time is allowed for this approximation of value and inaccuracies often creep in. It’s not unusual that a multiplier factor is used to adjust property values.
Ask yourself: if you were an appraisal company bidding on a municipal revaluation contract and your winning bid had only a $40 margin allocated for every home you needed to appraise, how much time would you spend on each property? Being a businessman, you would want to make a profit, so you have to cut out the time spent on each property. Compound that by a hired hand that may have little experience and you could have a hit and miss mess as a result.
Property tax assessments derived from blanket assessment abound with errors. These estimations of value are even derived by multipliers of the previous year?s assessment. If the original assessment was wrong, multiplying that assessment adds nothing to clarify the value.
If the building and tax department cooperated, there would be no need for a blanket reappraisal. Building permits and final market values could be incorporated into the individual values of homes with the tax role. There would be no need for blanket reassessment duplicating already established values.
The department of the tax assessor is usually small and little time is available for the assessor. Rarely do they appraise a home personally. The tax assessor job is often a politically appointed position. Tax assessors do not take the time and are not generally trained to do a complete market appraisal of a home. Often they use a completely different method (cost method) of appraising a home.
Selling prices of homes are constantly changing. When appealing your property taxes, only market value holds weight. Your home must equal the current selling price of other comparable home in your area.
Blanket reassessments of homes are very expensive for a town; the cost is directly passed directly to the budget causing extra tax rate increases. Timely blanket reassessments are a rip off to the taxpayer and a waste of valuable time for all involved.
This spells out gigantic loopholes for homeowners. Doing a simple analysis of your home’s market value and seeing how it lines up with the appraised value can save thousands of dollars wasted on taxes.
Many times when blanket assessments are done on homes, the resulting values are inaccurate and a result of a ''quick fix'' mentality. Often adjustments are made using a factor or multiplier to adjust values. Not that a blanket reappraisals accuracy...
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