12/06/2021 Assessment Community Weekly

Reminder: OAC down tonight

The Online Assessment Community (OAC) will be down for server maintenance tonight—Monday, December 6—beginning at 7:00 p.m. We expect it to be back online tomorrow morning.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

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New 467 Q and A

The following Q and A has been added to Law change regarding seniors exemption.

Q. If a municipality has opted to allow unreimbursed medical and prescription drug expenses to be deducted from income for purposes of the 467 exemption, is there a particular year of medical expenses that should be deducted?

A. Our opinion is that any deductions from income allowed by the statute—including unreimbursed medical expenses where a municipality has opted to allow that deduction—should have occurred in the income tax year required for the application. See the link above for details.

Updates to solar and wind appraisal web content

We’ve added two new sections—Tax load and Land value—and many new Q and As to our solar and wind questions and answers. Look for the New tag when you’re on the page.

In addition, we’ve updated the instructions to include a tax load calculation example. See the html or printable version.