By Jill Odzer – Lake County Appeal, Commercial Analyst – 7/31/19 The Chief County Assessment Office is responsible for assessing your property. The assessment should be the fair market value (what the county believes you could have sold your property for on January 1, 2019) multiplied by .3333 (for all Illinois counties besides Cook). Since 2019 Read More …
Author: Shelly Rothstein
When Will My Blue Assessment Notice Arrive?
By Lake County Appeal – 8/6/19 2019 assessment notices have not yet been released. First notices (Antioch Township) will be released on 8/16/19, with most others to follow in September. Lake County Appeal (LCA) is ready to begin reviewing your new assessment to bring you property tax justiceSM ! Wondering why these dates are so Read More …
ILLINOIS STATE HOUSE DISTRICT 59: Didech Property Tax Relief Legislation Signed into Law
By, Press release submission – Lake County Gazette – 6/22/19 Illinois State House District 59 issued the following announcement on July 18 Legislation championed by state Rep. Daniel Didech, D-Buffalo Grove, which will create a mechanism to lower the property tax burden on middle-class families by providing them yearly cost-saving rebates, was recently signed into Read More …
Property tax relief is next ‘think big’ idea for Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Illinois lawmakers to face
Written By, Rick Pearson – Chicago Tribune, 6/10/19 Gov. J.B. Pritzker hailed the accomplishments of state lawmakers for checking off the major items of his “think big” agenda this spring, saying their work delivered Illinois one of the most “consequential and transformative legislative sessions in history.” But in approving a proposed constitutional change Read More …
Hundreds of Lake County properties were overtaxed, officials admit
Written by, Russell Lissau – Daily Herald, 5/23/19 Hundreds of Lake County property owners received tax bills this month that wrongly demanded too much money because of computer errors that eliminated legitimate credits, officials admitted Thursday. The majority of those mistakes affected properties in the Wauconda area, said Bob Glueckert, the county’s new chief assessment officer. Data errors Read More …
When Is Best To Sign Up For An Assessment Review?
Written by, Ron Kingsley, Lake County Appeal Owner and Tax Attorney 8/5/19 Taxpayers Should Sign-Up Annually for An Assessment Review. Lake County Appeal’s residential clients frequently ask: Should I sign up every year? Our answer is always the same (regardless of whether we found a property to be fairly assessed in the previous year or we filed a successful Read More …
Letter: If we’re going to enact a progressive tax in Illinois, we must deal with the property tax crisis
Chicago Tribune, Voices Of The People, 5/8/19 My 90-year-old grandmother was forced to work a part-time job to pay her property taxes on a tiny two-bedroom home in Grayslake, where she and my grandfather settled in 1960. It was there that she raised my mother and three aunts. She served in the Army Cadet Nurse Corps Read More …
Lake County Board hires new chief assessment officer
By, Russell Lissau – Daily Herald, 5/14/19 – A former township assessor is Lake County’s new chief assessment officer. Robert S. Glueckert, who briefly served as Avon Township assessor in 2011, was named to the post Tuesday. The Grayslake resident was selected by county board Chairwoman Sandy Hart and then approved by the full board Read More …
Lake County Residents Pay Some Of The Highest Property Taxes In The Nation
By, Joe Barnes – Illinois Policy, 5/7/19 – As property tax bills hit Lake County mailboxes, residents get a stark reminder that Illinois needs pension reform, not higher taxes. Lake County homeowners last year paid higher property taxes – averaging $9,186 – than any other Illinois county, and the new bills are arriving in the mail. The Read More …
2019 Lake County Assessments Delayed
By, Jill Odzer, Lake County Appeal, 5/7/19 – The Lake County Assessor’s office is in the process of implementing an updated website and on-line appeal process. The good news is that the website will contain significantly more information for taxpayers. The bad news is that the implementation will significantly delay the publication of the 2019 blue assessment notices and, consequently, the appeal deadlines for this year. The latest information from the Assessor’s Office Read More …