Scott County, Indiana

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Your tax bill results from the interaction of your property's value and the local tax rate.

Your neighbor may be receiving deductions that you may not be eligible for or have not had applied to your home due to various reasons.

You must file a Form 135 – Affidavit of Destroyed or Removed Property in the County Assessor’s Office.

The trending factor is developed through an annual process called the ratio study, and includes all of the sales information collected to determine the trending factor.

Assessed values are established as of January 1 of the tax year, so for taxes payable in 2018 the valuation date is January 1, 2017.

In Indiana, reassessment is the periodic re-inspection of real property to check for errors, pick up new construction and improvements, and to clean up the county's data.

Trending is the annual process of valuing real property.

An exemption is a privilege which may be waived if an application for exemption is not timely filed.

The exemption application must be filed before April 1 of the assessment year in which the owner/applicant wishes to have the exemption granted.

An application for exemption is no longer required every two years if the exempt property is tangible property owned, occupied, and used by a person for educational, literary, scientific, religious, or charitable purposes as described in IC 6-1.1-10.

An exemption on a property is still valid after a change in ownership if the property continues to meet the requirements for an exemption under IC 6-1.1-10 or IC 6-1.1-10-21.