Property owners across Delaware County and the entire state are receiving budget statements in the mail this week.
There was a recent change in the law, requiring County Auditors to mail a statement to all County taxpayers by March 20th of each year.
The statement is not a property tax bill.
Delaware County Auditor Carla Becker says the purpose of the statement is to provide taxpayers with information about the proposed City, K-12 School District and County budgets in time for the taxpayers to address the proposals at public hearings held before the budgets are approved. The date, time and location of the hearings are included in the mailing. The budget requests may be lowered after the hearings, but not raised. The statements include the impact of the proposed City, K-12 School and County property tax rates on both a $100,000 residential property and a $100,000 commercial property. The actual impact of the tax rates on your property could be quite different than the examples in the statement, which do not factor in any possible change in the assessed value. If your property value was recently reassessed to a higher amount, the example on the statement will not accurately reflect the effect of your valuation increase on your property taxes.
The information being presented is for taxes payable in September 2024 and March 2025. You should receive this mailing if you expect to receive a property tax bill in September. Taxpayers owning more than one property may receive multiple letters if those properties are in different tax districts.
For more information about this statement, you can reach out to your County Auditor’s Office.
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