Progress on assessment consolidation in Allen Co.

Today's Fort Wayne Journal Gazette features an editorial about an ongoing attempt to consolidate local property tax assessment:

Instead of a full-scale restructuring plan that would move township property tax assessment operations to the county assessor’s office, the assessors outlined some modest cooperative measures that preserve the “hub and spokes” structure between the township and county offices.

Even though it cleaves to the outdated and inefficient township system, the plan and the discussions it prompted among council members and assessors provide a good place to start considering changes to make the property tax assessment system as fair and efficient as possible.

You can read the rest of the editorial here. IAR applauds the elected officials in Allen County for their efforts to modernize local government. We hope similar discussions take place in the rest of Indiana.