Orleans tax assessor notice

There should be a way to dispute the assessed value ether on the notice or on the assessor's website.

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How do I dispute my Assessment?When a property owner disagrees with the estimated market value the Assessor has placed on a property, the owner is allowed to personally appeal to the Assessor for review during the open rolls period, weekdays from July 15 to August 15. Instructions for appeals are on your property valuation notice or you may contact (504) 658-1300. When you visit our office during the open rolls period, be sure to bring documentation to support what you think the assessed value of the property should be. This includes a recent appraisal, builder's contract, insurance documents, and/or pictures. All pictures must be recent, printed, and dated.You may also bypass the step of discussing your assessment in person by submitting a formal appeal online or dropping the appeal documents off at the Assessor's Office. Instructions on how to appeal your assessment are included with your revaluation notice. You may submit an appeal throughout the open rolls period (July 15- August 15) plus three business days after the closing of the rolls.You do not dispute or “appeal” your property assessment to the Assessor’s Office because you think your taxes are too high. That is a discussion to take up with the taxing authorities. Property assessment appeals are made because you think the value placed on your property is too high because of inaccurate estimations on its size (i.e., the living area of your home is 1600 square feet not 2000), or that other neighboring properties have been recently sold at a relatively lower market value than the estimated value of your property

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Orleans Parish Assessor's Website

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What area do you live in?

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my real problem is this seems to be a deliberate practice they are using to pull in more revenue unjustifiably. Hopefully someone will run against this guy.

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Couple of thoughts here.

1) Sales prices in many parts of the city had reached absurd levels, going up 10-15 percent per year over the last few years (although more recently, it's been more flat, but it certainly hasn't gone down more). When a property is sold, the assessment value goes up to the sale price (roughly). So since they are only allowed to re-asses property every few years, you get situations where you have a major disparity in assessment values. That's not right or fair. So, in neighborhoods where sales prices have been skyrocketing, I would expect major increases in assessment values for everyone else in the hood as well.

Now, if you think you can't sell your property for what they assess it at, then by all means, fight it. They do make mistakes, of course.

2) The assessor doesn't set tax rates. The various tax setting bodies could decide, hey, assessment values are up, so we will cut tax rates in order to keep the revenue the same. So, if your taxes go up, your beef isn't with the assessor, it's with the taxing bodies.