[twobjshelbys]

I believe that most of the states in New England have a similar possibility. In MA for example (we lived there for 10 years), all of the assessed property tax issues are solely left with the town (and there are many of them) and it leads to very different results even in adjacent towns. It starts with the school tax levee on real property (your house) and gets to anything they consider "taxable property". Notable is that auto registrations can vary wildly from town to town.

Alot of it depends on how short your town is and how deep the assessor will go to make up the difference. They'd rather attack a few that are a minority to make up a shortage than raise the mil levee for everyone.