South Dakota Association of Assessing Officers

The South Dakota Association of Assessing Officers (SDAAO) is a professional organization of South Dakota county Directors of Equalization and their staff members whose duty it is to appraise real property for taxation purposes. The association wrote its current articles of incorporation in 1975. The main goals of the SDAAO are to provide education to its members, add to the knowledge and progress of the science of appraising and to assist the public and state lawmakers in understanding the process of property taxation.