If you don’t believe the Sedgwick County property tax appraisal process is unfair, inaccurate and unconstitutional, just ask one of the 20,000 county property owners who were so outraged at their tax valuations over the past two years that they filed an appeal with the county appraiser.
The one thing that all appellants have in common is that they contend the county appraiser’s tax valuation unfairly exceeds the actual market value of their property.
This year, 9,700 property owners filed an appeal, a sharp increase from last year. While that is a huge number, it doesn’t include thousands more angry taxpayers, who don’t have the time, energy or disposition to go through the appeals process…