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Williams County releases 2025 assessment report; officials cite 10% baseline increase
Summary
The Williams County Tax Equalization Office presented the county'wide 2025 assessment report June 3, explaining a 10% baseline increase applied to many property classes and outlining sales-ratio results that keep the county within the state'required 90'to'100 percent range; residents raised concerns about rising valuations and tax impacts.
Leah, Williams County tax equalization director, told the Board of Equalization on June 3 that the county'wide 2025 property assessments were set using a February 1 valuation date and market information from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2024. "The specific requirements for property assessment are established in the North Dakota Century Code," she said, and the office followed that law in producing the report.
The assessment staff applied a 10 percent "across-the-board" base increase to many property classes after observing higher replacement costs and sales data, but Leah emphasized the 10% was a starting point: "Just because we did a 10% across the board does not mean that everybody received a 10% increase." She said individual classifications were adjusted up or down where sales indicated a different change.
Why it matters: the state requires local assessors to keep sales-ratio studies between…
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