A newspaper article summarized the sentiment of the Deer Lakes School Board in regards to filing property tax appeals on properties they feel might be underassessed: they are not interested. As we noted in a 2015 Brief Deer Lakes was one of four school districts not to file appeals, and the municipalities that comprise it were not appealing properties either. Based on the 2016 certifications there is $1.044 billion of taxable property in the District.
One curious take from the article was a quote attributed to the District’s solicitor that “Allegheny County properties are reassessed every three years…” It would be accurate to say it has been three years since the last one, but the County certainly is not reassessing this year and, based on the comments of the Allegheny County Chief Executive last month when an article was written on the common level ratio for Allegheny County, there are no plans in the future for one.
