Sentence examples for lower assessments from inspiring English sources

And there is the reality — startling to many homeowners — that lower assessments do not guarantee smaller tax bills.

Falling property values have also affected cities and towns because lower assessments hurt property tax collections.

It eventually encompassed 15 of the 38 city assessors in Manhattan, who prosecutors say took $10 million in bribes to lower assessments for hundreds of properties.

Mr. Goldstein said in his letter that the tax consultants were offering owners lower assessments before the city's tax roll was published in January.

THE role of assessments in the tax system is widely misunderstood — especially why lower assessments do not necessarily translate into smaller tax bills.

But since the average assessment in Hicksville decreased by about 6percentt, many had received lower assessments and seemed content to leave well enough alone.

The online students also had lower assessment scores than those in the traditional course.

The letter showed a lower assessment that would have meant a $198 reduction in his property taxes for this year.

There might be other sources of value that DeNiro could offer the town in exchange for a lower assessment.

●Understand "assessment ratios". Some jurisdictions tax your house based on 100percentt of its value, but others assign a lower "assessment ratio," such as 60percentt.

Russian officials arrived in Geneva with a substantially lower assessment of the arsenal's size than the 1,000 tons Mr. Kerry had cited.