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· 4/15/1884

Ashby v. Shaw

Citations

  • 82 Mo. 76

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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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