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Monday, February 6, 2012

Allegheny County Reassessment Favors Properties with Higher Prices, Review Finds; Low-end Properties Assessed at Twice Value from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"The reassessment of Pittsburgh treated expensive land and buildings gently, while overestimating the values of low-priced properties. The Allegheny County-run reassessment fell far short of the goal of
distributing the tax burden fairly among owners of high-dollar properties and residents of modest homes. Those are the findings of a Post-Gazette review of new assessments on 130,977 taxable properties in the city and Mount Oliver."

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