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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Ranwhannock Neva Staff Writer
Every ten minutes they come through tiie door of the Commissioner of Revenue’s office - landowners with complaints about the new real estate assessments.
“They come in mad,” acknowledged Joe Chadwell, the appraiser who did the work on the new valuation of Rappahannock property. According to Mr. Chadwell, most of the 40-some landowners who had appointments with the Board of Assessors on Monday and Tuesday had looked at the notices that arrived by mail last week, mutiplied the value placed on their house and land by this year’s tax rate of 69 cents per $100 and hit the roof at what they thought would be the sky high increase in next year’s bill. “But once we explain that the tax rate will be coming down, they understand.”
Under the new assessments, the Board of Supervisors will be able to lower the local tax rate significantly and still generate the same amount of revenue, he pointed out.
Mr. Chadwell and members of the local Board of Assessors balked at putting a number to the average increase in property values county-wide. “No figures!” in
92.3%