Phoenix homeowner Patricia Harris appealed her property tax assessment after noticing inconsistencies on the online database with her home evaluations and those of her neighbors’ nearly identical homes., the Cook County assessor’s office said some homes, including those of her neighbors, have multiple PIN numbers associated with them, leading to confusion around their assessments when property owners try to search by one of those numbers.
“This is something that the assessor’s office should not be comfortable with,” Harris, who is also a Phoenix government official, said Thursday. “They should be offering some solutions, some options.” “I’m devastated,” said Childs, whose appeal of her assessment was also denied. “Everything is going up but my salary. I’m like, why am I paying this much in property when the village has absolutely nothing to offer me?”
Belanger said high property taxes in communities with little commercial investment is common because of the county’s system of dividing a pre-set levy among the tax base.. Owners of these properties, including factories, stores or offices in the south suburbs, saw their median bill fall by about 8.5% year over year.