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Senate advances bill standardizing property tax abatements and delaying tax sales
Summary
The Senate adopted the Government Operations committee report on H629 and ordered the bill for third reading after debate that would standardize municipal abatement procedures, allow class abatements, require added notifications (including email and translated notices) and bar tax sales until a taxpayer is delinquent for one year.
Senator Madison, the reporter for H629, told the Vermont Senate that the bill would clarify and standardize municipal tax abatement and tax sale procedures to make them fairer for residents and predictable for towns.
"When residents are unable to pay their property taxes, two of the primary tools that municipalities use to deal with the situation are tax abatement and tax sales," Senator Madison said, summarizing the bill's aims. H629 would update municipal abatement boards' procedures, require written explanations for abatement decisions, permit class abatements for events such as floods and create a uniform notice form that towns must use when informing taxpayers of…
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