Lackawanna County will undergo the first property assessment in more than 50 years. Every parcel including residential, commercial, exempt, and farmland will be reassessed beginning next month.
“People will be impacted, but some will go up, some will go down, many will stay the same, relatively," said Paul Miller, the regional sales lead of Tyler Technologies, the organization conducting the reassessment.
"For anybody that sees a tax increase, there will also be somebody that sees a tax decrease, so that the new assessments do not mean a windfall of revenue to the counties, municipalities or school districts. It's just deciding, making sure that each person pays their fair share," said Miller.
The reassessed values will go out in 2025 and there will be two processes for appeals. Tax bills will be adjusted for 2026.
Tyler Technologies said they will hold information sessions for the public.