Your assessment is used to determine the value of your home for tax purposes, not necessarily what you could sell it for on the open market. The goal, according to the state, is to make sure that ...

Property taxes are a significant expense for homeowners, often constituting a large portion of annual household costs. Given that property taxes are based on the assessed value of your home, it is ...

Ames homeowners opened their mail this weekend to find their property assessments rose an average of 29.5%. The double-digit increase was for single-family homeowners and condo owners. It was far more ...

Here's something most homeowners don't realize: Property tax appeals succeed more often than you'd think. We're talking success rates between 40% and 60% in some ZIP codes. Yet only 5% of homeowners ...

Millions of taxpayers are paying too much income tax when they file their self-assessment returns, new figures show. Here’s ...