· 4/15/1884
Ashby v. Shaw
Citations
- 82 Mo. 76
How courts have described this case
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- holding that taxpayers were entitled to an abatement to sixty-three percent of fair market value — the general level of assessment in the municipality — when the municipality assessed their property at eighty-four percent of fair market value
- explaining that, in order to achieve proportionality, all taxpayers must be assessed at the same percentage of fair market value
- recognizing town must apply uniform equalization ratio to ensure proportional assessments
- “When asked to consider taxpayer proportionality, we have consistently held that in order to achieve proportionality all taxpayers must be assessed at the same ratio.”
- “In order to achieve proportionality all taxpayers must be assessed at the same ratio.”
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Judges: Ewing, Hough, Norton, Sherwood
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