Mayor Mike Duggan to announce new Detroit tax assessment system

[Dan Wesson]

He talks about fairness...

Betcha a dollar to a donut that nobody is gonna pay less.

http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/...essment-system

[Honky Tonk]

This article actually has some writing to it.....

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/2...xt%7CFRONTPAGE

[DetroiterOnTheWestCoast]

He talks about fairness...

Betcha a dollar to a donut that nobody is gonna pay less.

http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/...essment-system

I'll take that bet.

I hardly think this sounds like an intention to increase taxes:

“We’re going to make a significant step on Monday to get the property tax assessments back in line to where they should be,” Duggan said.

From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/2...#ixzz2rcg8yRb9

And I hardly think he wants to discourage people from staying in, or moving into, the city.

[downtownguy]

I'll take that bet.

I hardly think this sounds like an intention to increase taxes:

“We’re going to make a significant step on Monday to get the property tax assessments back in line to where they should be,” Duggan said.

From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/2...#ixzz2rcg8yRb9

And I hardly think he wants to discourage people from staying in, or moving into, the city.

I agree. Easy to have a knee-jerk reaction from that 2 paragraph WXYZ blurb.

Also interesting in that article:

Convincing Snyder to cede one of his two appointments to the Land Bank Authority, which was awarded $52.3 million in redirected mortgage aid to eliminate blight, and shift two city appointments from council and the economic growth agency to the mayor is Duggan's biggest coup so far. The vote culminated an agreement that let Detroit's mayor to pick four members, while the governor made one.

“What you’re seeing is a mayor and a city council president working hand in glove,” Duggan said.

And then he shifted to public lighting:

As for lighting in the city’s neighborhoods, the mayor says the current plan for the Detroit Public Lighting Authority is not good enough and would “put Detroit on a plan for the next generation that doesn’t meet the standards of other cities.”

Instead, he and the City Council will present a new plan on Wednesday that will include a mid-street light on nearly every block and the replacement of all old sodium lights with energy-efficient LED lights.

When is the last time you heard of the Mayor and Council agreeing on a plan?

[Honky Tonk]

This just in:

http://www.freep.com/article/2014012...ax-assessments

[mikeg19]

He talks about fairness...

Betcha a dollar to a donut that nobody is gonna pay less.

http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/...essment-system

Where do we collect our winnings from you at?


http://www.freep.com/article/2014012...ax-assessments

[mwilbert]

He talks about fairness...

Betcha a dollar to a donut that nobody is gonna pay less.

http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/...essment-system

It was never going to be true that no one's taxes would fall--even if taxes on average were going to rise, there are some seriously overassessed properties out there, and the tax rate is more or less fixed. But it looks like the intention is to cut the assessments, and hence the taxes, overall.

[bailey]

It was never going to be true that no one's taxes would fall--even if taxes on average were going to rise, there are some seriously overassessed properties out there, and the tax rate is more or less fixed. But it looks like the intention is to cut the assessments, and hence the taxes, overall.

Its all theater if collection rates stay at 50%.

[Smirnoff]

According to a Detroit News analysis of more than 4,000 appeal decisions from 2010-12 by a state board, Detroit was over-assessing homes by an average of 65 percent.....

[mwilbert]

Its all theater if collection rates stay at 50%.

I disagree. One thing that discourages people from buying houses in the city is the unreasonable tax bills that come from unrealistic assessments. Most people buying a house aren't planning to go into tax default, even if they may do so eventually.

[Jason]

Its all theater if collection rates stay at 50%.

I agree 100%, but I think the intention is to also actually collect the taxes. iirc it was Orr's intention to lower taxes and make up the difference with a functioning collection system. I imagine Duggan will have the same goal.

[Dan Wesson]

I see's it as correcting all the under-assessed and abated properties.

Sort of a rising tide raising more cash. Then collections is a must.

[NickCharles]

This thread reminds me of holiday dinner table discussions between aged relatives who could not quite make out what the others were saying.

[Dan Wesson]

This thread reminds me of holiday dinner table discussions between aged relatives who could not quite make out what the others were saying.

What? Who's caged and can't get out!?