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Rep. Durfee seeks to move homestead-declaration deadline from Oct. 15 to March 15
Summary
Rep. David Durfee described H486, a bill proposing to change the statutory filing deadline for the annual homestead declaration from Oct. 15 to March 15 to reduce taxpayers losing homestead benefits when they miss the October deadline.
Rep. David Durfee, chair of the House Agriculture Committee, described a provision of bill H486 on Friday that would change the filing deadline for the annual homestead declaration.
"The deadline in statute right now to do that is October 15," Durfee said, and his proposal would move that date back to March 15 or another later date that falls after individual income taxes are due. Durfee said the change is intended to reduce cases in which homeowners who miss the October deadline lose homestead benefits and have no statutory remedy.
Under current law, Durfee said, taxpayers file a homestead declaration and a separate property tax bill form; the two forms have different due dates after a statutory…
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