University Daily Kansan, March 9, 1983
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Senate passes statewide reappraisal bill
By JEFF TAYLOR Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — Residential and agricultural property owners will assume a greater share of the property tax burden under a statewide reappraisal Senate passed yesterday, according to the Douglas County appraiser.
Don Gordon, the appraiser, said yesterday that property taxes for homeowners and farmland owners would increase under the measure taxes levied against utilities and other industries would remain the same.
County appraisers would have to update property valuations under the measure. The most recent property valuation was in 1964. The Legislature approved the updated appraisals in 1984 and then decide whether to approve them.
OPPONENTS IN THE Senate argued that the state should not reappear property without first reclassifying it into different tax groups.
Reclassification would allow the structure to different types of property at the data level.
Senators favoring the reappraisal bill said that their opponents were using the threat of a huge tax shift as a scare measure. The legislature from passing the bill.
The state assesses property taxes against utility companies and commercial industries at a rate based on 30 percent of the property's appraised value.
Douglas County assesses residential property taxes based on an average of 9 percent to 11 percent of a house's market value, Gordon said.
Farmers on the average are assessed taxes on 5 percent to 6 percent of their property's market value, he said, and additional taxes are imposed on an average of 12 percent to 13 percent.
DOUGLAS COUNTY PROPERTY has not been reappraised since 1964, Gordon said, and the increased market value of property could drastically raise the property tax burden unless the property is also reclassified.
"Every one of those legislators has got to go back and answer to their constituents," he said. "At least I would hope everyone in local and state government is thinking about the taxpayers."
would veto a reappraisal bill unless reclassification of property was included in the measure.
Gordon said that property reappraisal cases pending in Kansas courts could force the state to hurriedly reappraise the property.
Gov. John Carlin has said that he
Court-ordered reappraisals would be expensive, he said, because county appraisers would have to hire expensively and afforded some of the training their own appraisers.
IN THE SENATE, opponents of the bill argued that reclassification would keep the weight of property taxes from shifting to homeowners and farmers.
State Sen. Jan Meyers, R-Overland Park, said the Senate should vote on the reclamation issue before tackling reapraisal.
State Sen. Mike Johnston, D-Parsons, agreed that the Senate should address reclassification but said that the Senate could see how taxyparens were affected.
She said that she would not vote for a reappraisal bill unless a classification measure that would protect the homeowner was passed.
"If we implement this recoilapraisal bill, then I think many people in the chamber will be shocked."
interested in passing classification," he said.
Burke also said that reappraisal would cost the state about $18 million and that the state would pay part of the costs and the counties would assume the rest.
STATE SEN. PAUL BURKE, R-Leawood, said that a classification bill would have difficulty winning a two-thirds vote in the Legislature. He said that if two-thirds of the Legislature voted in favor of amending the state constitution to allow reclassification, the issue would go before the voters.
State Sen. Charlie Angell, R-Plains,
opposed reclassification and said he
would not convinced the predicted tax
shift would occur*
"I don't believe for one minute that passing this bill will mean a massive
Under the measure, information gathered by county appraisers during the next four years will be stored in a central computer in Topeka so that state tax officials can monitor whether guidelines are being followed.
For the state's 105 counties, Gordon said, filing information in the state's main computer could cost taxpayers millions of dollars.
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