Hey folks, my new tax assessment from Dare is 61% higher than before, but it matches our appraised market value pretty closely, so I'm not too worried and will not appeal.

However, I have a neighbor whose new tax assessment is approx $300k more than market value. He wants to appeal and asked if anyone knows of someone who can advocate for a homeowner during the appeals process. Any ideas? Thanks in advance for any help.

I did a quick number crunch and I must be doing something wrong as my tax amount I pay will go down a good bit. $.263 per $100 of value and it comes out to this.

Let's assume the new revaluation is $1.3 mil.

1,300,000 / 100 = 13,000 x.263 = $3400

I paid $5300 last year.

Dare commissioners statement:

During his opening remarks at the April 7 meeting, Woodard stated that after a budget workshop held on April 4, “I’m pleased to announce that the board [of commissioners] is committed to a revenue neutral rate.” Later, as he explained, the county tax rate will very probably go from 40.05 cents per $100 of value to 26.32 cents per $100 of value—a drop of 35% to get to that revenue neutral collection number.


So stop thinking the tax you pay will be way more than you have been paying. My valuation went up 85% but it's about right if sales stay at what they have been at for over 2-3 years.