2022 BOR APPEALS
Hello Niles Township Taxpayers: 2/17/2023 BOR 2022
We are going to begin accepting taxpayer forms that request our assistance with filing Board of Review appeals.
These request forms are for appeal of the Niles Township 2022 Triennial Reassessment assessed values to the Board of Review [BOR].
The Cook County Assessor Office [CCAO] 2022 Triennial Reassessment appeal decisions should be released by 2/28/2023.
Please keep in mind that the CCAO appeal and the BOR appeal are two totally separate appeals. With release of the 2022 CCAO appeal results we will have concluded all 2022 CCAO assessed value appeals for Niles Township. Filing an appeal to the CCAO is not a prerequisite to filing with the BOR.
So we will now move to the next level of 2022 reassessment appeals – which is the BOR.
The best course for a taxpayer is to go to NilesTownshipAssessor.com and follow the directions and prompts for the Appeal Request Form. Once you have completed the request form, and you have pressed DONE, we will have your form. Please do not contact us to ask whether we have received your form. If you pressed DONE then we have it.
We will find comparable properties and file them at the BOR along with your 2022 appeal. Once you have submitted your form to us you do not need to do anything else for this appeal.
The assessed value appeals, whether those to the CCAO or those to the BOR, are not set up in a way that taxpayers can check status. The status is that all appeals are reviewed and analyzed in good order. Decisions are not available as soon as they are made. Rather, once all of the decisions for all of the Niles Township appeals are complete then those appeal decisions are sent out together on the same day. There is no way to see the decision on a particular appeal until all of the decisions have been completed and sent out together. So – everyone in Niles Township receives their decision at the same time regardless of when the decision was actually made.
The CCAO and the BOR analysts get to the analyzing of appeals as promptly as is possible. But the appeals do take what might seem to some to be a long time. For example, the CCAO closed the 2022 Niles Township appeal window on December 2, 2022 and we expect the decisions by 2/28/23. So almost three months. That does not mean anything bad, it just means that is the way it is in our great big 1,800,000 tax parcel property tax system and we have to be patient.
It will not be necessary for taxpayers to make appointments or to otherwise come in to our office. Because we will apply and focus all of our time and resources to processing and building your appeal files we will not be able to accommodate telephone calls. If you have something urgent that we have not addressed in our emails or forms then you can email your PIN, with dashes, along with a description of your issue to Assessor@NilesTownshipGov.com.