Emmons County Gets Short End Of State’s Stick On Property Values

The issue revolves around the State Board of Equalization (comprised of the governor, state treasurer, state auditor, state agriculture commissioner, and the state tax commissioner) ordering to Emmons County officials to arbitrarily increase all residential land assessments by 50%, all building assessments in Hazelton by 10%, and increase all other residential building assessments by 30%. Then, after that, go on to order the county to manually reassess all property in 2016 with the expectation that it will result in even higher increases.
This was done, because the Emmons County Board of Equalization told the state “no, you do it” when initially told that local property valuations had to increase.