East Baton Rouge Parish residents can now easily look up 2017 property taxes for any parcel in the city-parish.
The city-parish recently added last year’s recorded tax roll assessments to Open Data BR, allowing anyone from realtors land developers to the average citizen to see how much their clients and neighbors pay in property taxes.
Before the user-friendly portal, citizens had two options for looking up tax roll information: Head to the tax assessor’s office downtown or go to the tax assessor’s website, which only allowed users to look up a single property at a time.
What makes this portal unique is that addresses are presented in a spreadsheet format, letting users filter their searches based on subdivision and adjudicated property, among other categories.
Since property taxes were first made available on the website in 2016, the data set has been “heavily used” because residents can search multiple properties at a time, says Eric Romero, director of information services.
“It just makes it a lot easier to find information, having it on the portal in the way that we’re presenting it,” Romero says.
