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Committee advances House Bill 354 to shift burden in some property-tax appeals, clarify homeowner-exemption proration
Summary
The Senate Local Government and Taxation Committee voted to send House Bill 354 to the Senate floor with a do-pass recommendation. The bill would shift the burden of proof in certain property-tax appeals when values jump more than 10% and would codify proration rules for the homeowner exemption.
The Senate Local Government and Taxation Committee voted to send House Bill 354 to the Senate floor with a do-pass recommendation after hearing testimony that the measure would shift burdens of proof in some property-tax appeals and clarify how the homeowner exemption is prorated.
"There's 2 primary things that this House Bill deals with. It's a burden of proof on property tax appeals, and it shifts that burden of proof, when 2 things happen," Representative Dustin Manwaring, R-29 of Pocatello, told the committee as he introduced the bill.
The bill does two main things. First, it shifts the burden of proof to a county assessor in appeals when a property's assessed value increases by more than 10% in a single year and the assessor did not follow the equalization methods used to measure median assessment ratios. Those equalization methods…
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