Jackson County Property Tax Assessment Hike Tops Nation

One of the most well-informed tax fighters in the metro has crunched the numbers and the data he delivers offers a glimpse at a local crisis in progress.

To wit . . . 

SURVEY SEYZ JACKSON COUNTY PROPERTY TAX ASSESSMENT SPIKE RANKS AMONGST U.S. HIGHEST!!!

Translation . . . The numbers tell us that we're paying California prices for cowtown life.

Here's the story . . .

If 36.7% is the actual average increase, it means Jackson County homeowners faced one of the largest hikes of any metro community in the United States. It would outpace Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit and L.A. County.

Preston Smith says that, while the increases are clearly large, they are also all over the place.

“There’s no consistency. It’s a pattern that is completely random. You have no way of tracking where anything happens. You have a 100% increase or 200% increase at one house. The next house, it could go down just as much,” said Smith.

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