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Resident challenges assessed value for home under construction; board says appeal deadline cannot be waived
Summary
Jacob and Jana Bates told the Jones County Tax Commission their home under construction was assessed at 80% complete for 2025; staff said appraisers must estimate percent-complete when denied interior access and the board said it lacks authority to waive the statutory appeal deadline.
Jacob and Jana Bates used the meeting’s public-comment period to challenge the county’s 2025 assessment for a house they are building on North Cross Road. They said the tax notice they received in October reflected a value based on the house being 80% complete as of Jan. 1, 2025, and that the reported square footage exceeded the house plans.
"I have pictures, I have receipts for our paid stuff. I paid the sheet rock person that hung it all January 16," Jacob Bates said. He told the board he never received an assessment notice in May and that he did not allow an appraiser into the home on the date the office recorded.
Mr. Goodman, a tax office staff member who handled the file, said the office makes site visits and, when an…
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