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Goals, Objectives And Performance Measures
GOAL: Consistent with proper assessment administration, as well as the recommendation of the County Auditor General, this division seeks to expand a personal property audit program to the County's largest businesses and corporations. To accomplish this goal, the division recommends continuing to contract with an auditing/accounting firm, which will have a greater depth of expertise regarding these most complicated audit assignments.
OBJECTIVE: To the extent that the Department of Treasury continues its grant program to underwrite the cost of contractual personal audits, this division will again apply for funding to audit the personal property of larger and more complex businesses, as well as companies that maintain their records out of state. The overall objective is to assure uniformity of treatment, compliance in reporting, and general maintenance of the County’s tax base.
GOAL: Continue the review and conversion of residential physical property data from paper to computerized electronic medium, compatible with the “Equalizer” appraisal and assessment software systems, and concluding with local community computer assisted mass appraisal re-valuations. The division plans to complete this work effort in Highland Park then proceed to another community.
OBJECTIVE: By computerizing residential physical property data, the statutory requirement of annual reassessment can be performed more efficiently and effectively. Additionally, the captured data can be incorporated into an effective GIS program.
GOAL: Reactivate the review, correction and update of the tax parcel layer of the County’s Geographic Information System (GIS) to assure the highest level of accuracy of the computerized tax parcel base maps. Additionally, this effort should help to recoup a portion of the County’s previous investment in GIS.
OBJECTIVE: The division desires to update and maintain the parcel layer of the GIS to enhance the efficiencies and effectiveness of the division’s operations, as well as to provide a dynamically useful tool for other county departments and local communities.
GOAL: Continue the systematic review of all land data and commercial and industrial building and improvements data for general revaluation purposes.
OBJECTIVE: Present land values utilized for assessment purposes are grossly out of date. By establishing current and uniform commercial and industrial land values, the division will be able to perform its appraisal equalization studies more effectively and uniformly. The division desires to review the commercial and industrial building data to improve the accuracy of assessments and to potentially integrate building data into a GIS system that can serve as a dynamically useful tool for other county departments and local communities.
GOAL: Develop a computerized commercial and industrial property sales database for use by Assessment & Equalization staff and local assessment administrators.
OBJECTIVE: Since sales of property is the most critical data necessary for determining the market value of property, it is paramount that the division develop computerized systems to more effectively categorize and retrieve commercial and industrial sales data.
GOAL: Increase the efficiency of personal property audits with the goal of discovering non-reported and under-reported personal property.
OBJECTIVE: To better assure that the division is meeting its statutory requirement of having all businesses subject to payment of property taxes on the full costs of their tangible assets, computer systems need to be improved to better analyze personal property data to identify trends and inconsistencies in reporting by business type. When this is accomplished, the division will be better able to strategically identify businesses that require audit for reporting compliance.
GOAL: Continue to develop, review and enhance procedures and systems to identify properties that have “transferred”, requiring statutorily required “uncapping” of valuations.
OBJECTIVE: This division needs to continue the initiative that it began this year to discover and uncap properties that have transferred. In this first year, the division discovered $44,445,182 in new taxable valuation, resulting in $347,650 in new revenues to the county.
