ASSESSOR
The primary duties of the county assessor are to:
- Certify assessed values to the county auditor. {IC 6-1.1-4-24}
- Serve as the secretary of the county property tax board of appeals {IC 6-1.1-28-1}, the entity that hears all property tax assessment appeals within the county.
- Perform the duties of a township trustee-assessor who fails to perform his or her duties in a timely manner. {IC 36-2-15-5(b)}
- Select the assessment computer system used by all the assessing officials in the county.
- Discover and assess property omitted by the township assessor and trustee/assessors.
- Equalize assessments in the county.
- Advise and instruct all township assessors in his or her county as to their duties.
- Affidavit of Destroyed or Removed Property
- Application for Property Tax Exemption (Form 136)
- Business Tangible Personal Property Assessment Return (Form 103 Long Form)
- Business Tangible Personal Property (Form 105)
- Business Tangible Personal Property Return (Form 104)
- Business Tangible Personal Property Return (Form 103 Short Form)
- Individual's Tangible Personal Property Assessment Return (Form 101)
- Notice of Action on Exemption Application (Form 120)
- Notice of Placing Mobile Home on Land or Lot (Form 1)
- Petition for Correction of An Error (Form 133)
- Petition for Survey and Reassessment - Real and Personal Property Partially or Totally Destroyed By Disaster (Form 137 R)
- Sales Disclosure Form
- Business Tangible Personal Property/Depreciable Assets in Pool 5 (Form 103-P5)
- Farmer's Tangible Personal Property Assessment Return (with Values) (Form 102)