July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Jay tax bills may be late (03/17/07)
By By MARY ANN LEWIS-
A delay in determining tax rates for a portion of Dunkirk which is in Blackford County is holding up the mailing of Jay County property tax statements.
Jay County Treasurer Robin Alberson said Thursday that Jay County's property tax assessments have been submitted to and approved by the Indiana Department of Local Government Finance.
However, reassessment values for the homes in the Shadyside Addition, which is on the northwest side of Dunkirk in Blackford County, have not yet been calculated.
That delay could mean the first of two semi-annual installments won't be collected by the normal date of May 10.
Although that addition is located in Blackford County and property tax collected there is paid to Blackford County, property owners there also pay taxes to the Jay School Corporation and the city of Dunkirk.
Blackford County Assessor Sharon Hartley said Thursday that tax rates for the entire county have not yet been set or approved.
Hartley said she is still awaiting the approval of software supplier Appraisal Research to calculate the rates.
"They had said they would have it last week," she said, "but we still don't have it."
Hartley is optimistic that once the software is approved that the assessor can submit the figures and the auditor and treasurer can begin the billing process. "Hopefully we're looking at July 1 or 10," she said.
In the meantime, Alberson said Jay County is looking at other options - including sending tax statements to property owners before Blackford's rates are determined - but said admitted the bills are not likely to be sent in time to collect by May 10.
All 92 counties missed an August deadline to hand over assessment data needed to calculate 2007 property taxes.
The delay is being linked to a mini-reassessment, also known as trending.
Jay County Assessor Anita Mills said Friday that the county's figures were first submitted to the state on July 25, but because "they wanted a different format," she said the county was notified Aug. 25 to resubmit the figures. Final approval was given on Sept. 27.
"We were the third county finished," she said about completion of tax rates.
Mills said the state had partial blame for the delay by "changing things in the middle of the stream. She said one of the changes came in the way sales disclosures were completed.
Earlier this year Jay County Commissioners approved hiring Appraisal Research to help with the trending because they proposed a lower cost than AdValorem Solutions of Kokomo.
But several weeks later Mills convinced commissioners to change their mind after she presented evidence that there had been problems with Appraisal Research.
About a dozen counties have been so tardy that the state is punishing them by withholding annual property tax replacement credits that go toward funding county operations.
"We don't want to get our tax replacement credits withheld," Mills said.[[In-content Ad]]
Jay County Treasurer Robin Alberson said Thursday that Jay County's property tax assessments have been submitted to and approved by the Indiana Department of Local Government Finance.
However, reassessment values for the homes in the Shadyside Addition, which is on the northwest side of Dunkirk in Blackford County, have not yet been calculated.
That delay could mean the first of two semi-annual installments won't be collected by the normal date of May 10.
Although that addition is located in Blackford County and property tax collected there is paid to Blackford County, property owners there also pay taxes to the Jay School Corporation and the city of Dunkirk.
Blackford County Assessor Sharon Hartley said Thursday that tax rates for the entire county have not yet been set or approved.
Hartley said she is still awaiting the approval of software supplier Appraisal Research to calculate the rates.
"They had said they would have it last week," she said, "but we still don't have it."
Hartley is optimistic that once the software is approved that the assessor can submit the figures and the auditor and treasurer can begin the billing process. "Hopefully we're looking at July 1 or 10," she said.
In the meantime, Alberson said Jay County is looking at other options - including sending tax statements to property owners before Blackford's rates are determined - but said admitted the bills are not likely to be sent in time to collect by May 10.
All 92 counties missed an August deadline to hand over assessment data needed to calculate 2007 property taxes.
The delay is being linked to a mini-reassessment, also known as trending.
Jay County Assessor Anita Mills said Friday that the county's figures were first submitted to the state on July 25, but because "they wanted a different format," she said the county was notified Aug. 25 to resubmit the figures. Final approval was given on Sept. 27.
"We were the third county finished," she said about completion of tax rates.
Mills said the state had partial blame for the delay by "changing things in the middle of the stream. She said one of the changes came in the way sales disclosures were completed.
Earlier this year Jay County Commissioners approved hiring Appraisal Research to help with the trending because they proposed a lower cost than AdValorem Solutions of Kokomo.
But several weeks later Mills convinced commissioners to change their mind after she presented evidence that there had been problems with Appraisal Research.
About a dozen counties have been so tardy that the state is punishing them by withholding annual property tax replacement credits that go toward funding county operations.
"We don't want to get our tax replacement credits withheld," Mills said.[[In-content Ad]]
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