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Committee sets June 18 deadline for local tax-rate actions after debate on timing
Summary
Senate Bill 204, a departmental bill to move local governments' deadline for setting property tax rates from July 1 to June 1, was discussed; committee settled on June 18 to balance municipal requests and workload.
The Budget and Taxation Committee debated a Department of Assessments and Taxation departmental bill that would move the statutory deadline for counties and municipalities to set property tax rates from July 1 to an earlier date. The department's proposal would have set the date at June 1; committee members and local-government representatives proposed a later date to ease budget scheduling pressures.
Testimony from the Maryland Municipal League and Anne Arundel County asked the committee to select a date later in June; members discussed several compromise dates and settled on June 18 to split the difference between requests for June 15 and June 20. Sponsors and committee members said the change is intended to allow time to calculate tax rates and homeowners' tax-credit amounts without compressing local budget calendars.
Committee members asked staff to confirm that key stakeholders, including county associations, had been consulted; members also noted that subcommittee and budget schedules must be coordinated with any deadline change. The committee recorded agreement on the revised date.
