Jackson County, Missouri homeowners who would rather keep their right to sue than join the property tax reassessment settlement have until November 18, 2026 to put a letter in the mail. The exclusion request has to be postmarked by that date, five days before a Kansas City judge holds the approval hearing on November 23. Most owners in the class never need to write anything, so the letter matters to a small group with a specific reason to stay out.
The settlement resolves a class action over the county’s 2023 reassessment. The official settlement website defines the class as owners of residential real property in Jackson County who paid real property taxes and whose 2023 assessment rose by more than 15 percent over the prior cycle, not counting increases caused only by new construction or improvements. OpenClassActions puts the class at about 207,000 owners…