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Ascension assessor uses technology to more accurately determine property tax values
Source:
nola.com
- Aug 19, 2014
GONZALES (AP) — Knowledge is power — and, in Ascension Parish, it apparently also means a lot more tax revenue for local government.
With a trove of new data collected earlier this year through an aerial imagery project, new electronically submitted building permits and an updated website, Ascension Parish Assessor M.J. Smiley Jr. is adding existing, unreported properties onto the tax rolls.
Tax bills won't go out until later this year, but preliminary figures show the total taxable assessed value in Ascension — the assessed value minus items like homestead exemptions — increased 10.7 percent between 2013 and 2014, from $1.04 billion to nearly $1.15 billion.
Smiley tells The Advocate the projected increase is estimated to mean about $11.5 million in additional tax revenue for the parish school board, Sheriff Jeff Wiley and other local governments.
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