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Tennessee Comptroller finds widespread errors in Rutherford County property assessments; commission orders investigation
Summary
The Tennessee Comptroller told Rutherford County commissioners that a two‑year review of 8,683 parcels found errors in about 25% of sampled properties — including missing new construction and square‑footage miscalculations — and recommended a countywide independent review and adoption of the state's Impact appraisal software. The commission voted to investigate hiring an outside firm.
Jason Mumpower, Tennessee’s comptroller of the treasury, told the Rutherford County Board of Commissioners on Oct. 16 that a state‑directed review of local property assessments found systemic problems in the county assessor’s office that require immediate action.
"We reviewed 8,683 of Rutherford County’s property parcels," Mumpower said, and "we found errors still in 25% of those properties." He described square‑footage errors that produced overvaluations (one example produced a $217,000 overvaluation and a tax refund due of $1,019 per year for the affected homeowner) and multiple cases where completed buildings were not placed on the tax rolls until later years.
Mumpower said his office’s Division of Property Assessments worked at the direction of the State Board of Equalization and devoted 22 staffers and 4,676 hours to the project. He told commissioners that his team found entries that had been deleted from…
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