Schuylkill County Administrator Gary R. Bender said, “Your individual real estate tax bills may go up, they may go down or they may stay roughly the same.”

Reassessment will evaluate the current market condition of each property. Employing current market values will ensure that properties located in areas that have suffered changes that devalued properties will pay taxes reflecting their current status. Likewise, properties in other areas that have appreciated in value will pay taxes based on their current value. It is important to remember that the overall tax rates will be adjusted to reflect a change to 100 percent of current market value, but the overall tax revenue to be collected by the county will be the same.

Reassessment works toward establishing a fair tax burden … and that does not always mean that tax obligations stay at the pre-reassessment level.

No one should assume that reassessment will result in across-the-board tax increases for everyone. Some tax bills may rise, some may fall and some may stay the same. The goal of a reassessment is that every property owner pay only their fair share of real estate taxes.”