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October 2009

• FY2010 Community Preservation State Match
• 2009 Municipal Law Seminar Material

September 2009

• Bulletin 2009-22B  - Summary of 2009 Municipal Finance Law Changes
• Bulletin 2009-21B  - Training Program for Assessors
• LA3 Submissions Step by Step 
• IGR-402 Fiscal Year 2010 Guidelines for Determining Annual Levy Limit Increase for Tax Base Growth
• IGR-401 Fiscaly Year 2010 Guidelines for Annual Assessment and Allocation of Tax Levy
• City and Town 

August 2009

• FY2009 Automated Schedule A - Excel Version is now ready! 
• Bulletin 2009-20B  - Sewer Rate Relief Fund - FY2010
• Bulletin 2009-19B  - Veteran Exemptions
• Local Option Meals Adoption 
• Local Option Rooms Adoption 

July 2009

• The Division of Local Services is pleased to announce The Regionalization Tool Kit: A Practical Guide to Sharing Municipal Services, a conference sponsored by the Massachusetts Department of Revenue’s Division of Local Services, the Franklin Council of Governments, and the Massachusetts Association of Regional Planning Agencies. Registration information.

• City and Town 

• Bulletin 2009-18B  Revised Abatement, Exemption and Deferral Applications and Certificates
• IGR-302 Fiscal Year 2010 Waivers to Education Reform Spending Requirements and Minimum Required Local Contributions
• IGR-301 Fiscal Year 2010 Payment Schedule For Cherry Sheet Programs
• Bulletin 2009-17B  - Use of Local Meals or Room Occupancy Excise Revenuesin Fiscal Year 2010 Tax Rate
• Bulletin 2009-16B "What's New in Municipal Law" Seminar (Registration Closed)
• 2009 Reimbursable State Owned Land Final Valuations
  • Cover Memo from Marilyn Browne, Bureau Chief of Local Assessment  
  • Cherry Sheet State Owned Land  
  • DCR Water Supply Protection Land  (Formerly MDC Watershed)
  • DCR Water Supply Protection Annexed Land  (Acreage already included in DCR Water Supply Protection Land)
• Towns of Hamilton-Wenham Enhanced Regionalization and Merger Analysis
• FY2009 end-of-year letters for the Accountant/Auditor, Treasurer, Collector, Clerk and Regional School Business Managers are now available.
• Bulletin 2009-15B New Local Meals Excise and Amended Room Occupancy Excise Rate
• Bulletin 2009-14B  Taxation of Poles and Wires on Public Ways

June 2009

• City and Town FOCUS:Equalized Valuation on the Move 1998 to 2008
• Time Adjusting Sales Prices (Powerpoint Show - Click mouse on screen to advance or use nagivation keys at bottom left corner of slide)
• Local boards of assessors fiscal year 2010 pipeline company central valuations pursuant to M.G.L. Chapter 59, Section 38A and new growth:
  •  FY2010 Centrally Valued Pipeline Company Values 
  •  FY2010 Pipeline New Growth  The only company reporting new growth for FY10 is Algonquin Gas Transmission, LLC. Taunton is the only community that has new growth.
  • FY2010 Centrally Valued Pipeline Companies Addresses  This is a list of the billing addresses for Centrally Valued Pipeline Companies
    
• 2009 Reimbursable State Owned Land Proposed Valuations
  • Cover Memo from Marilyn Browne, Bureau Chief of Local Assessment 
  • Cherry Sheet State Owned Land   
  • DCR Water Supply Protection Land (Formerly MDC Watershed) 
  • DCR Water Supply Protectio Annexed Land (Acreage already included in DCR Water Supply Protection Land) 

May 2009

• City and Town  
• Bulletin 2009-13B : Certain Accounting Entries and Required Supporting Form for Chapter 70 Aid Reduction and Stimulus Funding
• FY2010 Memorandum to Board of Assessors  - This memo describes the Certified Telephone & Telegraph Valuations for Fiscal Year 2010
  • FY2010 Centrally Valued Telephone and Telegraph Company Values 
  • FY2010 New Growth 
  • FY2010 Centrally Valued Telephone & Telegraph Company Addresses .
  • FY2010 Telephone and Telegraph Companies Filing Returns to be Locally Valued 
  • Fiscal Year 2010 Multiplier Tables Used for Telephone Company Values 
• The Department of Elementary & Secondary Education and Bureau of Accounts reporting the recent reduction of Chapter 70 funds that are being replaced by Federal Stimulus Grants.
• Updated Personal Property - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) 
• Bulletin 2009-12B  New Officials Finance Forum

April 2009

• City and Town  FOCUS:Motor Vehicle Excise
• Bulletin 2009-11B Sales Report Submissions
• 09-207 Calendar Year 2009 Adjustment in Land of Low Value Foreclosure Valuation Limit
• 09-206 Optional Cost of Living Adjustment for Fiscal Year 2010 Exemptions
• 09-205 Social Security Deduction for Fiscal Year 2010
• 09-204 Fiscal Year 2010 Tax Bills Quarterly Payment System
• 09-203 Fiscal Year 2010 Tax Bills Semi-Annual Payment System - Annual Preliminary Bills
• 09-202 Fiscal Year 2010 Tax Bills Semi-Annual Payment System - Optional Preliminary Bills
• 09-201 Fiscal Year 2010 Tax Bills Semi-Annual Payment System

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What’s New 2009

What’s New 2008

What's New 2007

What’s New 2006

  

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