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PROPERTY TAX ASSESSMENTS ON THE BROADNECK
New property tax assessments are being issued in various parts of the county, including the Broadneck. To help you judge if you should appeal your new assessment, here is some information gathered by Amberley residents about the process of appealing your assessment if you think it is out of line. The BCC is not recommending appeal, but if you see a large jump in your property value assessment in just three years since the last assessment, you might want to investigate.
First of all, to appeal you should have your assessment document in hand, if you can’t find it you can write a letter with more general information. Appeals must be submitted by a deadline. Those mailed out at the end of 2015 to Amberley residents must be postmarked by Feb. 11th, 2016.
If you have your assessment notice, you can mail in the appeal or go on line to file your appeal. You will need a Notice# and Control# located in the box on the upper right hand corner of page 3 of the assessment notice. Go here to start the process:
http://assessmentappeals.dat.maryland.gov/start.aspx
If you have lost your notice, you can look up the new values assign to your property (county, street number and one street name, ex. holly) here: http://sdat.resiusa.org/RealProperty/Pages/default.aspx
You can write a letter to the local assessment office, with the account number (found at the top of the listing for your property in the database) and your property included, asking for an appeal:
Anne Arundel
Barbara Clark, Acting Supervisor of Assessments
45 Calvert St., 3rd Floor
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
Hours: 8:00 to 5:00
(410) 974-5709
FAX (410) 974-5738
E-mail:[email protected]
The Assessment office is very pleasant to converse with, but they are only able to give a Control#, but they do not have access to the Notice#.
To be successful in an appeal you need to show they have misidentified features of your house or land that make it less valuable, or show comparable house sales in the area that are not valued as much as yours. The assessor normally uses the past six months of this past year to make calculations, but arguments can be made to look further afield. Here is a good article to catch up on the details: http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/business/ph-ac-housing-0906-20150906-story.html
You will need to gather comparables for houses sold or listed for sale in the year 2015 in your neighborhood or immediate area. A local realtor would be able to provide these records.
Best wishes,
Britt Griswold
