Property tax appeals in Maine
The Cook County Assessor's own record of what happened to appeals filed on properties in Maine township.
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Each year: how many percentage points better an agent did than an owner filing alone. Negative means the owner did better.
Firms that file on your behalf commonly take a third of the first year's saving. This is the county's own record of how the two groups actually did.
The reasons the Assessor gave
Every decision carries a stated reason. These are the ones that appear most often on Maine decisions, and how often each was attached to a reduction rather than a refusal.
| Reason given | Decisions | Reduced |
|---|---|---|
| This is a result of a market analysis of your property as well as an analysis of comparable properties. | 29,333 | 18.9% |
| This is due to income, market or cost analysis supporting the assessment. | 913 | 0.0% |
| This is due to an analysis of the actual sale transaction of the property. | 838 | 0.0% |
| This result is based upon consideration of the appraisal submitted and an analysis of recent comparable property sales. | 493 | 0.0% |
| This is the result of an income, market or cost analysis. | 457 | 100.0% |
A reason seen fewer than 30 times shows no rate, for the same reason a township with a handful of appeals shows none.
Source. Cook County Assessor, published appeal decisions
(dataset y282-6ig3). Counted, not modelled. Undecided appeals are excluded
from rates rather than counted as losses. Rates carry a 95% Wilson interval and none is
shown below 30 decided appeals.