The budget was blown. The system became 50 times more expensive. And the citizens’ trust is declining.

It has cost more than 50 times as much to develop the new machine for assessing properties. However, public trust is declining.

The new property valuation system had an overall purpose: It was to ensure that citizens had confidence in the new property valuations and thus in the taxes they had to pay.

That’s not how it has turned out. Citizens’ trust is lower than expected, and what’s worse: Citizens’ trust is declining.