A judge sided with the State Tax Commission, stating it acted lawfully in August 2024 when it ordered that increases to 2023 and 2024 tax assessments should be capped at 15 percent.
“Taxpayers deserve this judgment I’m going to do everything in my power to make sure it sticks,” said Jackson County Legislator, Manny Abarca.
Jackson County Assessor Gail McCann Beatty said she did not know what the results would be with the order and did not offer much of a comment on the ruling.
In the judgement, it states ‘Jackson County Petitioners failed to provide adequate notice to approximately 75% Jackson County real property owners who faced increases of 15% or more; that the Jackson County Petitioners sent notices to property owners about interior inspections which misstated the applicable law’
“It is not factual we absolutely sent notices out to every single person in the county they were given the opportunity for the interior inspection if they wanted it. We completed over 4,000 inspections and so I don’t agree that that was the case, and so we will see where we go from here that is all I have to say for right now,” said Jackson County Assessor Gail McCann Beatty.
