Cook County’s Property Tax System is a source of concern for many homeowners, especially in the low-good southern part of the county where the burden is the most, on average.
Determination of fair value of homes and businesses is important to make the system as appropriate as possible. This is the work of the evaluation of Cook County to assess those values. This is a less famous Cook County Board review work to listen and rule on the appeal of the owners of the property when they feel that their assessments are very high. Successful appeals require support for at least two of the three commissioners.
The board is divided into three districts, and most of the south suburbs, along with the west and south sides of Chicago in the third district of Larry Rogers Junior, include most of the south suburbs. Since 2004, a commissioner Rogers has been running for reunion. His challenger is Laresia Tucker, who works in the office of the evaluation of the Rich Township as a clerk and lives in the South Suburban throughout his life.
This is the first time Rogers – who has the support of powerful local Democrats, such as Cook County Board Chairman Tony Prekwinkle, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and US Sen Dick Darbin – have faced a challenge since joining the board. We are happy that 3 district voters have an option, and we support the tucker, which we think the job will bring a new approach and a support for very important improvement.
Rogers, a lawyer, is engaged in a proxy war with Fritz Kegi, a Cook County, who has tried to bring a more consistent approach than its predecessor, who, which is a more consistent approach than the commercial property. Rogers disagree with the methods of Kegi and in many examples urge to reduce commercial values.
The success of commercial property owners, which often turn lawyers to challenge their assessment, reduce their evaluation high bills for residential taxpayers. Property tax is a zero-zero game because taxing bodies get the levy that they approve, even if individual properties are given importance. Assessment determines how much the owner of each property contributes to those zodiac signs. Fairness is everything.
Rogers argues that Kegi is not sufficient to take into account the income generated after its cost and instead instead it puts a lot of weight on the sale of similar properties in the surrounding area.
Issues get a thorn as most of the donations funding Rogers’s campaigns come from property tax lawyers and others who represent commercial landlords before the board. The practice, although legal, has raised moral concerns. Rogers defended to do so, saying that they do not affect their decisions, and have said that Kegie is personally financed by Rogers’ Challenger. He says, it is a fundamental conflict of a fundamental interests, given that it is a review task to rule on the appeal challenging the evaluation’s work.
Tucker says that she will not accept donations from property tax lawyers.
We agree with Kegi’s idea that Cook County’s property is a strong need for more prediction in the tax system, although we share the concerns of commercial property owners how many times this has happened in behavior. They are residential or commercial people, we have unnecessarily closed the cash earned by a lot of property owners and see in the pockets of the lawyers.
Tucker, also, shares the goal of Kegi. But she makes it clear that the Board of Review decisions should also be entered to generate income commercial properties. “If the evaluator only sees the recent sales, it is not correct,” she says. “You have to keep in mind both.”
He is clearly worthy, working in an evaluation’s office and assessing the certified Illinois officer receiving the designation. She was a real estate agent in her previous career.
Another issue in the third district is a relative shortage of residential appeals compared to two other districts. Cook County’s property tax system is so Byzantine that homeowners are well advised to appeal to their assessment regularly. This third district resident does such a small number that makes their already high tax bills even more inflated. We feel that the tucker – as someone forced his Park Forest Home to sell in 2012 due to property tax bills, he could not bear – the owners of the house in the district would do more to extract words.
Everyone said, we talk about Rogers that Kagi has excluded his opponent’s financial support, it is a matter of concern. We hope that Tucker raised pain from the evaluator to demonstrate his freedom, if he should win the seat.
But the need for changes and progress on making the county’s property tax system fair and more predetermined is our overriding concern.
We support Laresia Tucker.