Many will be paying more

Chris Manolis hoped reassessment would provide some relief from the 2007 property tax bill on his Near-Northside home that nearly doubled from the previous year.
The General Motors retiree was shocked when the new values were revealed last week. His revised 2007 tax bill will be about $2,500 more than the flawed bill thrown out when Gov. Mitch Daniels ordered the reassessment.

Manolis is not alone: Nearly 30,000 homeowners in Marion County are likely to receive revised bills higher than their original 2007 bills because of the reassessment, according to an analysis by The Indianapolis Star.

More than 20,000 of those who will end up paying more are in Center Township, where The Star found seven census tracts in which bills are likely to increase for 75 percent or more of the homeowners. Across the township, bills are expected to increase on four of every 10 homes.


Since the start of this property tax relief, I have been trying to tell people that there will be no property tax relief, with little feed back from the readers here. Well I guess the history of our property tax relief has never came true for us taxpayers. With your new property tax relief, the new 1 per cent sales tax and not to memtion prices going up everyplace, don't you think its time to start taking action again?