State launches online feature to show which owners are set
By Jamie
Smith Hopkins, The Baltimore Sun April 3, 2012
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Tens of thousands of Maryland homeowners who haven't already
applied for the Homestead Property Tax Credit have until the end of the year to
do so or lose the often-valuable break.
The deadline was set so long ago — 2007 — that some residents
might not remember if they applied. State assessors, hoping to cut down on
anxious calls, launched an online feature Monday that notes whether a
property's application is in and processed.
"We get such tremendous volume of calls, and one of the
unfortunate things is, when people do call … they sometimes get a busy
signal," said Robert E. Young, director of the state Department of
Assessments and Taxation. "It's so much easier just to go to the
website."
The owners of 807,000 homes in the state are getting a break
on their property taxes thanks to the homestead credit, which acts as a limit
on annual increases. About 150,000 owners haven't sent in their applications,
according to the assessments agency.
The statewide homestead program is only for primary
residences. It keeps the amount of assessed value a homeowner is taxed on from
increasing more than 10 percent a year, with even lower caps in most
jurisdictions… http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bs-bz-homestead-application-feature-20120402,0,3243613.story
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