BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. -- Commercial property owners are still losing sleep in Jackson County. They're worrying over exactly how huge a tax bill they'll have to pay in less than two months time.

The new county executive tells FOX4 they're working to implement the 15% cap on assessment increases. One big issue. They need more than one way forward.

Turns out your way forward as a taxpayer depends on where you are in the process.

Kimberly Compton received her commercial property tax assessment earlier this year and found that she’d be paying 107% more than she had the year before.

“You don't have that kind of savings, no one does!” she said. “No one has $40,000 just lying around in a business account ready to pay a tax bill they don't expect they're going to get.”

Compton, like many others, f

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