State Says McHenry County Assessments Must Go Down 9%
That’s what Supervisor of Assessments Robert Ross emailed me in September:
“The Department of Revenue has indicated McHenry County assessments must go down approximately 9 percent in 2012.”
Now comes my Algonquin Township assessment notice and guess what it says?
The assessment is being cut by 9.06%, as you can see.
Such an assessment cut does not mean my or your bill will decrease 9%.
In fact, as long as tax districts (think mainly schools, which take most of our property tax dollars) are beneath their statutory tax limit, the County Clerk will raise our tax rates to tax us what the tax districts request.
So, don’t be surprised if your next tax bill is higher than it was this year.
Wow that is cheap…you must have some serious exemptions to have a 2600 sq/ft home assessed so low!
I have 1/2 the house and an equal assessment to yours…maybe it’s protest time?
1Perhaps it is time for you to appeal your assessment, as I did last year…complete with appraisal.
2You DON’T need an appraisal to file or win an appeal.
Don’t waste good money!!
3You also do not need to pay someone / some company to do do your appeal.
Your township assessor will help and you can download all the forms you need from the county site with instructions.
You can mail everything in if you do not want to appear.
It is simple and free.
This way you get to keep all of the benefits of the assessment reduction.
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