(Beaver Falls, Pa.) Beaver County residents are starting to receive their new assessment values for their homes in the mail this week from Tyler Technologies. Are you confused or afraid of what your new tax rate will be? Well we have the answer for you below.

Back in 2016 the previous Board of Commissioners was sued by local developer CJ Betters to do a county wide reassessment. Betters felt that his property values were not correct since the county had not done an assessment since 1982. The previous board which consisted of current Board Chair Daniel Camp, Tony Amadio, and Current Treasurer Sandie Egley fought the law suit all the way to the State Supreme court before ultimately losing to Betters over the fact that their had not been any reassessment in over 35 years.

County Commissioners Chairman Dan Camp put a post on his Commissioner Facebook Page explaining the process and letting everyone know that  you should not panic when you see your new reassessment value of your home because your tax rate will not be at the current millage rate and that the tentative millage rate for the county is going to be 3.5 mills.

Camp went on to give an example of how to figure out your new tax rate. If your house is valued at $100,000 you would take that number and divide it by 1000 which would equal $1,000.00 you would then take the $100.00 and multiply that by the tentative new millage of 3.5 and in this case that would give you a tax rate of $350.00.

New reassessed value : $___________

Divide that by 1000 =     $____________

Multiply by 3.5                  $____________  (New tax rate)

(Tentative new millage rate)

If you don’t agree with the assessed value of your property by Tyler Technologies you will have a chance to appeal during an informal review period from March 27 thru June and then a formal appeal period from July to October.

You can see Commissioner Chairman Camp’s’ Facebook k Post below: