TAX
TAX ASSESSMENT YET? IF YOU DID....YOU PROBABLY GASPED!
TALKING ABOUT A 25-
PERCENT JUMP IN
PROPERTY TAX
ASSESSMENTS ON
AVERAGE IN ADA
COUNTY....
30-PERCENT IN CANYON
COUNTY!
THOSE WHO TRACK THIS
SAY ITS THE BIGGEST JUMP
IN OUR REGION IN MORE
THAN 4 DECADES!
THE ANNUAL PROCESS
THAT DETERMINES HOW
MUCH YOUR HOME IS
WORTH HELPS DETERMINE
HOW
HOW MUCH
HOW MUCH YOU PAY IN PROPERTY TAXES FOR THINGS LIKE FIRE AND
POLICE PROTECTION,
SCHOOLS, LIBRARIES,
ROADS AND MORE...BUT IT
DOESN'T NECESSARILY
MEAN YOUR TAX BILL IS
GOING TO EQUAL THE
JUMP IN PROPERTY
ASSESSMENT.
IT'S A COMPLICATED
PROCESS --
SO JOINING US NOW TO
CLEAR UP SOME
CONFUSION IS A MAN
WHO HAS BEEN THE ADA
COUNTY ASSESSOR SINCE
1994....HE HAS SEEN IT
ALL....
ALL.... -- BOB MCQUADE. THANK YOU FOR JOINING
US ON THE NEWS AT 4.....
I WAS JUST THINKING
ABOUT
ABOUT YOU
ABOUT YOU AND I DOING A VIEWPOINT SEGMENT IN 2006 AND I WAS
INCREDULOUS TALKING
WITH YOU ABOUT AN
INCREASE OF 14-
PERCENT.....UNHEARD
OF!!!!!!!!
PERCENT.....UNHEARD OF!!!!!!!! AND NOW....15 YEARS
LATER.....
TALKING 25 TO 28
PERCENT!
WHEN YOU SAW THE
INITIAL NUMBERS....
WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST
THOUGHT.
YOU ARE ALWAYS QUICK
TO TELL PEOPLE THAT A
BIG
BIG INCREASE IN ASSESSMENT DOESNT MEAN AN EQUALLY LARGE
INCREASE IN TAXES.
EXPLAIN THAT FOR US.
INCREASE
INCREASE IN TAXES. EXPLAIN THAT FOR US.
--
-- IF
-- IF HOME VALUES IN ADA COUNTY ARE UP BY OVER
--
-- IF
-- IF HOME VALUES IN ADA COUNTY ARE UP BY OVER
25
25 PERCENT IN THE LAST YEAR -- HOW MUCH MORE DO YOU EXPECT AN
AVERAGE PERSON TO PAY
IN PROPERTY TAXES THIS
YEAR?
YEAR?
--
-- AND
-- AND WHEN DO PEOPLE USUALLY GET THEIR YEAR?
-- AND WHEN DO PEOPLE
USUALLY GET THEIR
PROPERTY
PROPERTY TAX BILLS AND WHEN ARE THEY DUE?
USUALLY
USUALLY GET THEIR PROPERTY TAX BILLS AND WHEN ARE THEY DUE?
-- WHAT SHOULD PEOPLE
DO
DO IF
DO IF THEY HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THEIR ASSESSMENT OR
DISAGREE WITH IT?
-- FOR THOSE WHO HAVE
NOT GOTTEN THEIR
ASSESSMENT YET WHEN
SHOULD THEY EXPECT IT?
QUESTIONS
QUESTIONS ABOUT THEIR ASSESSMENT OR DISAGREE WITH IT?
QUESTIONS
QUESTIONS ABOUT THEIR ASSESSMENT OR DISAGREE WITH IT?
-- FOR THOSE WHO HAVE
NOT GOTTEN THEIR
ASSESSMENT YET WHEN
SHOULD THEY EXPECT IT?
QUESTIONS
QUESTIONS ABOUT THEIR ASSESSMENT OR DISAGREE WITH IT?
--
-- FOR
-- FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT GOTTEN THEIR
ASSESSMENT YET WHEN SHOULD THEY EXPECT IT?