Property tax
Assessed value
The value a taxing authority assigns to a property for tax purposes
Often a fraction of market value, set by applying a local assessment ratio. It exists to allocate the tax burden between properties, not to estimate what one would sell for.
How the exam asks about it
Treating assessed value as an opinion of market value is a mistake in both directions, and it appears in pricing questions as well as tax ones.
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