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Example:  If you purchase your home on May 1, the tax snout will be issued in the name of the previous owner/s.  The reminder notice, sent by the Tax Collector, will moreover still have the previous owner/s name.  If the Assessing Department receives notification of a sale of property surpassing we send the transferral roll to the tax collector, we will update the record to reflect that the snout is stuff sent in superintendency of the new owner/s.  If you are the previous owner, and receive the tax snout in error, please forward it to the new owner. If you purchased a property without April 1st, email or undeniability the office at 207.989.7560 and let us know that you are the new owner and that you wish to have the tax snout sent directly to you, withal with your mailing address.  You may undeniability the Tax Office 207.989.7060 to request a reprinting of the tax bill. If your name changes, we require written passport from you in order to transpiration our records for tax purposes.   Please well-constructed the NameTranspirationAuthorization Form and return it to our office. If your mailing write has reverted please fill out the Request for AddressTranspirationForm and return it to our office. What is Taxable? Personal Property is taxable in the State of Maine.  It consists of furnishings, fixtures, machinery, equipment, telecommunications, computers, trailers, box trailers, signs and other heavy equipment, etc.   As prescribed by State Law a Declaration of value is sent each year to the merchantry owners. This Business Personal Property Declaration Form must be completed and returned to the Assessing Department. Failure to return this form may bar the right to request the assessment. If you close, move or sell your merchantry or apt. towers without April 1st, you remain liable for the unshortened yearly snout until the pursuit April 1. FOR 2018 THE LEGISLATURE HAS MADE CHANGES TO THE TYPE OF BUSINESSES THAT QUALIFY FOR THE BETR AND BETE  PROGRAMS.   Click here for increasingly information. RealManorconsists of land and any improvements to the land.   We alimony a property record vellum of each property in the city.  The record consists of the owners name and mailing address, map/lot number, street location, sale price, sale date, sale type, zone designation, neighborhood, land and towers data if applicable.  It will indicate the land valuation, towers valuation, vineyard of the property withal with a sketch and picture of the buildings and the value of any tried exemption/s and indicate the total valuation for tax purposes.Subversivenesspermits and towers permits are required byMunicipalityOrdinance and can be obtained from the Code Enforcement Office.  We receive copies of these permits and will follow up by inspecting the property for towage purposes. If a property is under construction on April 1st, the assessor or appraiser will inspect the property to determine the percent of completion.  The towage for that tax year will be calculated based only on what is completed as of April 1st.  The property will be revisited each year until the construction is complete. If subversiveness occurs to a house or other structure without April 1st, the assessed value of that property remains taxable until the next April 1st. The data on the property record cards is gathered from deeds, inspection of the property, subdivision plans, sales, survey plans etc.  Information such as type of structure, class, quality of construction, sq. footage, story height, type of heating, any spare characteristics are gathered and then entered into a mass valuation system “VISION”.  The valuation calculated is based on the information entered into the system and the respective forfeit schedules. The Assessor is an wage-earner of the State, governed by the laws of the State of Maine,MunicipalityOrdinances andMunicipalityPolicies. The Assessor is moreover the E-911 Addressing Officer for theMunicipalityof Brewer. A large set of tax maps is misogynist for review in the Assessing Department.  Tax maps can moreover be found here. A list of the streets for easier reference to the respective tax map can be found here. When a Brewer property sells, we receive a reprinting of the deed from the Penobscot County Registry of Deeds.  We moreover receive a reprinting of the Transfer Tax Declaration from the State which documents the selling price of the property.   The information from these documents is entered into the towage program.  Once all the sales information is received through April 1st, we perform our sales ratio studies.  The information from these studies indicate what neighborhoods are selling whilom or unelevated assessed values, and we can make adjustments therefrom to alimony property values at prescribed State levels.  Annual Sales Ratio Studies are required by and provided to the State of Maine Revenue Services. Appeals Process If a taxpayer feels that the towage of their property is incorrect, they have 185 days from the stage of transferral in which to file a written using for abatement.  A separate using should be filed for each property.  The appeals process is governed by M.R.S.A. Title 36 § 841-849. The undersong of proof is upon the taxpayer to provide proof that the towage is manifestly wrong. The vitiation using can be found here Additional, useful information can be found in Property Tax Bulletin #10.  MRSA Title 36 Section 708 Assessors to value real manor and personal property – The assessors and the senior assessor of a primary assessing zone shall unearth as nearly as may be the nature, value and value as of the first day of each April of the real manor and personal property subject to be taxed, and shall estimate and record separately the land value, sectional of buildings, of each parcel of real estate. Brewer on FacebookMunicipalityof Brewer Economic Development Police Department Brewer Public Library Parks & RecreationTropical× Disclaimer Privacy Policy © 2018 TheMunicipalityof Brewer, Maine. All Rights Reserved.