The above comes from an independent evaluation of the reassessment contract between Indiana County and a third party mass appraisal company. The news media coverage of the contract and the accuracy of the reassessment “...was made in compliance with legal requirements and the results of the reassessment generally pass assessing industry standards”.
This was the first reassessment conducted in Indiana County since 1968–the report points out that “In only Delaware, New York, and Pennsylvania is such a long interval between reassessments as Indiana County has experienced conceivable. Most states mandate reassessments annually or on a fixed cycle of no more than six years. In addition to the property tax inequities that accompany infrequent reassessments, assessment districts find it difficult to maintain mass appraisal skills and resources, including appropriately organized collections of essential data.” The lack of a regular cycle of reassessing in PA is something we pointed out in our 2007 report and many times since then.