Why does cement driveway raise taxes?

While gravel is obviously temporary (and friends who have gravel report on how they have to regularly add to the gravel as some is slughed away and some is buried.) Asphalt really has the gravel problem, but slower: it chips off, pieces fall away, and it needs to be redone. Concrete does not need periodic slurry sealing. In fact, as long as your faultline there in Missouri stays quiet, well-layed concrete could last a century. (Of course, it won't stay quiet over the next century, but that's not the tax essor's fault.) Whether you live in city or county, the county code guy will see to your essment based on the county's tax laws. Sorry. Them's the breaks.