It's bad enough not to get inadequate government services in the city of Detroit.
It's another to pay inflated property taxes that are far more than the properties are worth.
Christine MacDonald of The Detroit News reports that the " State Tax Commission may soon launch an investigation into complaints Detroit is overtaxing property owners through inflated assessments."
She writes:
Doug Roberts, chairman of the three-member panel that oversees the state's property tax laws, said he plans to begin the process Monday of hiring a private firm to analyze city assessments. He said he was prompted by a February series in The Detroit News that exposed widespread over-assessments, rampant tax delinquencies and dysfunction in the city's Assessment Division.
