Rhodes seeks credit for calculations

Hamilton County Auditor Dusty Rhodes wants to make sure the public knows that his employees are the ones who calculate how much tax levies will cost the owner of a $100,000 home (the number often referenced in news stories about the tax.)



Here's the blog entry he posted on his Web site.



August 31, 2007

When you read in the paper or hear on the news that a particular tax levy will cost the owner of a $100,000 market value home a certain amount of money in taxes, please know that the Auditor’s Finance Department, Budget and Settlement division, formally prepared those calculations as required by law. Unfortunately, some members of the news media fail to give proper attribution by not naming the true source of this work product, allowing people to believe that the media somehow did the calculations. These are not simple calculations and our office takes great pride in being accurate in this work.