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Originally Posted by LoneWolf
It’s not going to be worse next time. It’s just finally getting the assessments in line with the value of the homes. There are certainly exceptions where the homes are being overvalued and hopefully on appeal this gets corrected.
You haven’t been paying your fair share the last couple of years when your home was severely undervalued.
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The home's valuation is half the equation. The total amount of property tax (you are charged is the important figure. I have seen countless examples of retirees on fixed incomes that have 2024 bills that will be more than $3,000 more than 2023. Because the process has been mismanaged and based on inaccurate individual home data for a long time, now residents are paying dearly for county govt. incompetence again, only this time, they won't be able to afford the higher taxes due to inflation, which easily eats up the 8.7% average increase to SS. The easy, common sense answer was to cap the increases and allow the elderly and low-income to more easily adjust their budgets, or make repairs so they can maximize the sale, but of course few govt. entities actually work for the citizens, they just keep collecting more obcene amounts of your money for projects you didn't vote on or for slush funds that will allow the politicians to run for higher offices.