03.11.2009 9:00 pm

St. Louis County passes the assessment non-bucks

St. Louis County Executive Charlie A. Dooley and his staff have rethought, reconfigured and rejiggered their December estimate that property tax assessments would drop by only 2 to 3 percent. Under a barrage of criticism from the public, the county…

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02.06.2009 9:01 pm

Assessing St. Louis County’s assessment flap

By Editorial Board

If the recent dust-up over the unpaid taxes of several cabinet nominees proves anything, it’s that Americans have a sharp nose for hypocrisy. They don’t enjoy paying taxes, but they accept them, in Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’ words, as “what we…

Tags: home values, housing crisis, Paul Hampel, property tax, reassessment, st. louis county, St. Louis news, tax fairness

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St. Louis County passes the assessment non-bucks

Assessing St. Louis County’s assessment flap

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