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Tax Department urges slower, stakeholder-driven path for regional reappraisals and warns against nine new classifications
Summary
Deputy Commissioner Rebecca Samrock and PVR Director Jill Remick told the committee that regional reappraisal proposals need more stakeholder engagement and clarified that the department lacks current staffing and administrative capacity to implement nine new property classifications statewide.
Rebecca Samrock, Deputy Commissioner at the Tax Department, told the committee the department supports the goal of regionalizing reappraisals but asked the legislature to slow down and use the time afforded by prior actions to build stakeholder buy‑in and workable rules. "We absolutely continue supporting the conversation about regionalizing reappraisals. We're excited about this conversation. But the latest draft has a lot of foregone conclusions about PBR taking over reappraisals," Samrock said, urging more work with municipal partners and valuation professionals.
Why it matters: proposed legislation would move Vermont toward regional reappraisal districts (RADs), require periodic reappraisals…
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