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City assessor details 2026 interim revaluation and warns residential share will rise
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City assessor Jason told the Committee of the Whole that a 2026 interim market update will adjust assessed values after state review flagged compliance gaps; he said residential property’s share of the tax burden rose after 2024 revaluation and outlined appeal and open-book timelines for homeowners.
Jason, the city assessor, told the City of West Allis Committee of the Whole that the assessor’s office will perform an interim market update in 2026 to bring local assessed values closer to current market levels and to address disparities identified by the Wisconsin Department of Revenue (DOR).
The assessor said the 2024 supervised revaluation raised the city’s total assessed roll from about $3.8 billion to $5.5 billion. He told the committee that DOR initially set an assessment level well below 100% — at 87.59% for 2024 — asked the city to add roughly $800 million more in value, and denied the city’s appeal on Dec. 31, 2024. DOR later revised the 2024 assessment level to 90.45%, which brought the city into compliance for that year, the assessor said.
"This is not a mechanism to raise taxes," Jason said, describing mass appraisal as a method to align assessed values with market values so property classes share the levy proportionally. He said the important effect homeowners…
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