CLARION, Pa. (EYT) — The Clarion County Assessment Office is currently in the process of updating tax records for each municipality.

This ongoing procedure is to ensure uniformity and consistency throughout Clarion County.

Each township and borough will be field reviewed during one of the following methods:

• Using assessment permits that have been issued;

• Identify constructions that failed to receive a permit;

• Permits that have been issued, but were not forwarded to the county by the municipality;

• Through discovery;

• Using aerial views comparisons.

This is not a reassessment; it is a County tax records update.

All improvements in the county that are 6 x 8 (48 square feet) and above are assessed. The exceptions to this are licensed mobile homes, dollhouses, doghouses, outhouses, and any improvement that has been deemed exempt by the Board of Appeals.

All sheds and outbuildings will be taxed whether they are on skids, peers, or permanently attached to the ground. All buildings are subject to tax for their intended use. This does not include agriculture buildings that do not require a building permit, but are required to issue an assessment permits.

All taxpayers are welcomed to review their records in the assessment office to ensure that they are up-to-date.

The County is not reassessing, but just updating current values based on previously submitted building permits and identified construction that failed to receive a permit, etc.