Welcome to the Lincoln County Assessors website. As the County Assessor it is my responsibility by the State of Missouri Statutes to appraise and assess all real and personal property within Lincoln County, except as otherwise exempted by State law.This includes all classes of real property including residential, agricultural, and commercial and all personal and business personal property.
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Our office is also responsible for creating and maintaining all property ownership maps within the county. All records of conveyance recorded by our County Recorder are given to our office to track all real estate transfers and new land splits. We currently maintain approximately 27,500 mapped real estate parcels within our county.
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The Assessors Office must create and certify an assessment book for each property by May 31st of every calendar year; this book contains all property owners and their assessed value per parcel as of that day. These values are used later in determining tax rates set forth by the political or taxing entities within the county boundaries. The Assessors Office has no part in setting tax rates; these are arrived through formulas based on overall value totals per taxing entity. Taxes are based on assessed value per $100.00 of value.
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Taxes are in relation with the Assessors Office but our office is not responsible for the creation and distribution of county tax bills. The County Collector is responsible for generating and mailing your tax bills, the bills are typically sent out the first part of November of each year. If you did not receive a tax statement and feel that you should have, you should contact the County Collectors Office at (636) 528-6300. It is your responsibility to pay your annual taxes by December 31st of that calendar year, even in the event that you didn't receive a tax statement.
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We hope the information provided on this website will be useful with questions or concerns you may have with the County Assessors Office. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me or my staff at (636) 528-6300 or come the the Courthouse. We are located on the first floor of the old courthouse.
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For Missouri Statutes that pertain to our operations, refer to Chapters 53,137,138 and Article X, Section 3 of the State Constitution Of Missouri.
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