Jackson County Property Tax Assessment Class Action Lawsuit Update

For late night readers we share this conservative blog consideration of an ongoing hot mess and legal push back that's underway . . . Here's the word . . .

Now the muddled assessor’s office is facing a class action lawsuit – and after what he says were “multiple” complaints by citizens to his office’s Whistleblower Hotline, Missouri State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick notified the county that he’s investigating.

In his letter to the county, Fitzpatrick cites, among other concerns, residents’ inability to get through phone lines to schedule informal appeals, and others finding their appeals decided by possibly unqualified personnel.

The Jackson County assessor’s office has been besieged for years now by charges of skyrocketing and wildly unequal property values, occurring even along the same streets.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Jackson County assessor facing class action lawsuit, probe by Missouri auditor, over wildly varying assessments, chaotic appeals process

Kansas City taxpayers have performed their own assessments of the Jackson County property tax system. The verdict: mass confusion, myriad complaints and record numbers of appeals. Now the muddled a...