I was surprised to learn that what you say is correct,but I had a board of review class a month ago,and that's exactly what the instructor told us. If you win at the State Tax Tribunal,it only applies for one year. The next year,the assessor can raise it right back up.
I honestly don't know what's going on with your assessor up there. Sounds like it just some doink who's bent on drawing attention to themselves and making other people's life miserable. You'd think that after being slapped down by the State Tribunal and BOR,they'd learn,and leave it alone,but it doesn't sound like they're a fast learner.
What has happened to your TAXABLE value? When the Tribunal and BOR lowered the SEV,the taxable would have had to have come down with it. It's absolutely illegal for taxable to be higher than SEV. Once the taxable was lowered along with the SEV,I don't know how they could have raised the taxable back up by more than the rate of inflation.
If the taxable was lowered and is still down there,I think I'd just forget the SEV and move on. If you get a new assessor,then go back and protest again,showing that Tribunal and BOR have lowered it before. It really doesn't mean a thing as far as what you pay in taxes is concerned. I know this might not be a big comfort,but there are two advantages to the SEV being high as long as the taxable isn't. One reason is that State Revenue Sharing is tied to the total of SEV of property in a county. The higher the SEV,the more revenue sharing that county gets from Lansing. The other is the value that it adds if you ever try to borrow money and have to fill out a financial statement at the bank. That won't ask you to have your property appraised just for a value on that statement,but one of the lines will ask for SEV of real estate that you own,so the higher the SEV,the more your net worth is.
I don't even know who to tell you to contact to complain about the assessor. By law,the township supervisor is the assessor,but the law also allows them to hire the job out and most do. You have to be a certified assessor to do that job and there aren't many of them around. For that reason,supervisors are reluctant to get rid of them because they're almost impossible to replace. I only remember two supervisors around here who did their own assessing,and that's been quite a few years ago when there weren't near as many parcels to assess,just mostly 80 acre farms.
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