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Tax Department briefing: landlord-certificate report shows coverage gaps and data limits for renter credit
Summary
Tax Department officials told the House Committee the 2025 landlord-certificate data set includes about 8,400 certificates covering roughly 75,000 renters and 60,000 units but has unit-count gaps and incomplete participation; officials emphasized the form’s primary purpose is administering the renter credit, not comprehensive housing inventory collection.
Tax Department staff told the House Committee on Federal and Housing that the landlord certificate provides useful but incomplete information about rental housing statewide.
Jake Dahlman and Kathy Magnus of the Tax Department briefed the committee on the certificate’s history and current use. Dahlman said reforms in 2021 changed the renter program into a renter credit and simplified filing, which made administration easier for landlords and renters but increased back-end matching work for the department. Dahlman told members the certificate’s primary statutory purpose is to administer the renter credit, not to serve as a comprehensive housing inventory.
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