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Property Tax Assessments and How to Appeal Them

access_time Posted on: March 6th, 2025

About this time of year, when the spring county and municipal real estate tax bills arrive in mailboxes, I start to get lots of phone calls with questions about the appeal process. Without a doubt, the real estate tax assessment process in Pennsylvania is convoluted and murky. York County’s real estate base totals over 175,000 parcels and has not had a uniform reassessment since 2005. Pennsylvania is the only state in the nation that does not have some form of mandatory property reassessment process. The Commonwealth updates the assessments for each of its 67 counties on an annual basis. The… read more »