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owners. “Many just wanted an explanation of how I arrived at the figures. Others wanted to know what their taxes would be,” said Hall, noting that authority to set the tax rate rests entirely with the board of supervisors, not the appraiser.
According to Hall, he used median sales figures whenever possible to establish land values, disregarding sales at the high and low end of the spectrum. He said, however, that in some areas of the county, sales were too few in number to be able to accurately determine a median value per acre for land.
Hall noted that he took into account the difference in value of acreage with road frontage in determining per acre worth of large tracts. “If the ow'ner could tell me exactly how many acres he
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