Moultonborough has numerous issues with their assessments that the BOS is not fixing. With the Assessor retiring, they are just letting things slide until someone new arrives. But there is no expectation that things will get fixed. Just one example....the town switched the assessing program to something called Avitar to make the town departments more efficient (but no cost saving I might add). When they changed the system, they introduced a new building depreciation table that is much more hurtful to property values across the board....causes building values to go UP !! Significantly lower depreciation percents than prior depreciation schedule in 2019. When challenged, the answer was "we are using a new system". No backup on how the tables were created, the source of the data, nothing at all....just a new system. That is not an answer. This is the tip of the iceberg.
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