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House amends bill to change property tax abatement and tax-sale procedures
Summary
The House amended H.629 to standardize municipal abatement procedures, require notice and repayment plans, lengthen delinquency before tax sale to one year, lower redemption interest to 0.5% and create a working group; the amendment passed on a roll call, 92–44.
The House on the floor amended House Bill 629, a measure to change property tax-abatement and tax-sale procedures across Vermont, and ordered the bill for third reading.
Representative Demerall (member from Corinth), speaking for the House Ways and Means Committee, summarized the strike-all amendment and said the changes seek to bring consistency and clarity to municipal abatement and tax-sale practice. The amendment incorporates language from H.19 and H.61, establishes written-decision requirements for boards of abatement, permits municipalities to hear groups of similar abatement requests as a class in disaster situations and requires municipalities to provide notice to taxpayers of their ability to request abatement when attempting to collect municipal fees or interest.
Key provisions described by the committee include: amendments to 24 VSA 1535 to permit de minimis abatements and class hearings; a notice form created in the 24 VSA series…
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