ASK MARK: You're the Supervisor, Can You Lower My Assessment?

ASK MARK: You’re the Supervisor, Can You Lower My Assessment?

/ August 21, 2014 / Comments Off on ASK MARK: You’re the Supervisor, Can You Lower My Assessment? / Ask Mark, Taxpayers
  • Mark D. Armstrong, CIAO, Kane County’s supervisor of assessments since 2006, has nearly 30 years’ experience in property valuation. Click here for more about Mark. To Ask Mark a question, email it to KaneSOA@co.kane.il.us or mail it to: Mark at 719 South Batavia Ave., Geneva, IL 60134.

 

Q: The Board of Review lowered my property’s valuation, but I don’t think they went far enough. But since you are the “Supervisor”, can you take a look at my file and lower the assessment?

A: No. While I am sympathetic to your situation, I have no authority to change a decision made by the Board of Review.

The courts have ruled that the “duties of supervisor of assessment, a county officer, are fixed by statute.”[13]The Illinois Property Tax Code does not give me authority to alter a Board decision, and the Attorney General has opined that “there is no statutory provision or other basis for concluding that the supervisor of assessments may alter an assessment after the board of review has acted.”[14]

Finally, it’s worth noting that the Board of Review doesn’t work for me; I work for the Board. The Property Tax Code provides that “Each supervisor of assessments shall serve as clerk of the county board of review”; and lest you think I am drawing two salaries, the Code also says that I “shall not receive additional compensation for that service.”

 

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