Indiana

Assess This

By Abdul Hakim-Shabazz

Marion County Assessor Greg Bowes says more than 60 percent of  county property tax payers could see either a decrease or no change in the assessments this year.  Bowes says the County is completing its latest assessments and taxpayers should get their bills by the first week in June.

Bowes says 63 percent of the County taxpayers should see a drop in their assessment. 22 percent should see an increase of less than five percent and only 11 percent will an increase of 10 percent or more in their assessment.

Bowes also tells me that he hopes to be done with 80 percent of the County’s 22,000 property tax appeals done by the end of the year.

He also touts about $1.4 million in savings due to consolidation.  Bowes says he is closing the township offices and replacing them with satellite offices which will give taxpayers access to all records, as opposed to having to travel to different townships under the old system.

Full post as published by Indiana Barrister on May 18, 2009 (boomark / email).