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House approves targeted change to property tax primary-residence exemption after debate on local impacts
Summary
Representative Snow’s bill (HB 273) creates a process to allow a purchaser who acquires a property previously classified as a second home to claim the primary-residence exemption during the taxable year if residency and an application requirement are met; the House passed the bill 70–1 after floor debate about tax shifts to local homeowners.
The Utah House on Feb. 13 passed House Bill 273 to address circumstances in which an owner purchases a property that had been carried on the tax rolls as a second home but intends to occupy it as a primary residence during the same taxable year. Representative Snow sponsored the measure and framed it as a narrow fairness fix for buyers who close mid-year and otherwise face a full-year secondary-home tax rate.
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