Every five years, the Guilford County Tax Department does a complete revaluation of every house, building and piece of property in the county.
The tax department assigns a new value for the purpose of determining property tax bills for the coming five years. The department, of course, has to inform homeowners of the new values and even give some explanation of the reasoning behind them.
One interesting consequence of the process is that it allows anyone who wants to see the values and other details of any property. Anyone can use the web database with the newly assigned values to check on the updated value of any property in Guilford County – as well as view information such as new additions, renovations, square footage, number of bathrooms, etc.
Also, since searches can be done “by owner” as well as “by address,” the same website allows nosy people to see a list of all the property owned by others.
The Guilford County Tax Department recently completed its valuations for 2022, and, in late February, mailed out those values to property owners and posted all the new information online.
The county also publicized the web link for viewing values or details of any property.
While property owners could have checked before on the Tax Department’s website, the “reval” offers the current updated values and the latest information on the houses and other property – and the mass mailing of the webtool info to all property owners calls attention to the fact that anyone can check on anyone else’s property.
Those who want to find the current value or see how much property their doctor, their girlfriend or their county commissioner owns, along with the latest values, can do so at https://taxcama.guilfordcountync.gov/camapwa/
The county’s tax department staff doesn’t of course conduct a comprehensive real estate appraisal of every house or building in the county every five years, but tax staff aims to hit the actual market value of a home or business by taking into account square footage, date built, number of bathrooms, upgrades, comparable sales in the area and a lot of other information.
According to reports from Guilford County Tax Director Ben Chavis given to the Board of Commissioners over the years, the Tax Department does a very good job of hitting the actual market value. However, in the years following a revaluation, the actual market values of homes, buildings and property tends to diverge from the assigned tax values until a new reval is conducted.
Big Brother continues to move in, encircling us from every dimension.
Like to flash you Super Gold Platinum Members Only credit card as you wave it at another machine? How convenient. Wait until there is only digital currency. Then BB will know what you purchased, where, when, and where you got the currency to pay for it. Cameras at every corner, etc.
Banks will take a cut of every transaction, no more discounts for cash. No wonder Banks are so predatory. I needed some cash to buy a car, so I went to my local bank to get some. Despite pitching a hissy fit, I could not get near enough. Some garbage as they had a run on cash due to tax refunds. I didn’t buy that for one minute.
“1984” is here, and has been for a long time. Read the book, or look at a movie version. Read “Animal Farm”, “Fairenheit 451”. I believe that “Atlas Shrugged” is the #2 book published in the U.S., after the Bible. Atlas is a slog, so listen to it on CDs or media.
Where you gonna go?
Let them that don’t read none have memories of nothing.
Your 20, 50 and 100 USD bils are microchipped to track your money when 5G goes live! There truly is truly nothing they won’t know about you!
Just the 100s with the metal strip across the center, for now. These can be detected with metal detectors not only nearby, but from cars in your area, and from the air.
The given reason for this to prevent counterfeiting, and it does help. But the Big E in the room is detection. So who really cares? Anyone who doesn’t want their cash confiscated – as during a roadstop in Tennessee.
Yet another snoop…. from all directions. Doesn’t anyone have a concept of privacy?
This information has always been available through each county’s GIS, which has been around for a long time. Guilford County may have repackaged the data and made it easier for the general public to use, but having access to this data is nothing new.