FARMINGTON, Maine — Property owners can expect a higher tax rate than the one set last month by the Select Board after town staff members uncovered inaccuracies in data from the town’s appraisal firm.

The board has unanimously voted to reset the property tax rate, also called the mill rate, at $10.50 per $1,000 of assessed valuation based on recent revaluation figures. The new rate is less than half of last year’s rate, but more than the $9.81 rate that the board had hoped would help counter a spike in property valuations.

“Unfortunately, we’re going to have to reset the mill rate,” board Chair Matthew Smith said. “It’s not something we want to do. Some of the numbers we received weren’t right.”

The Select Board initially set the property tax rate Oct. 14, a little more than two weeks a

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