What's New - Archive 2007

• City and Town    september.pdf  FOCUS: FY07 Single-Family Average Tax Bills and Assessed Values
• IGR 07-403  Fiscal Year 2008 Guidelines for Annual Assessment and Allocation of Tax Levy (Supersedes 07-401)

September 2007

• <em>City and Town</em>  FOCUS: The MERIT Plan: Property Tax Relief for Veterans

August 2007

• Bulletin 2007-09B  FY2008 Sewer Rate Relief Fund
• IGR 07-401 Fiscal Year 2008 Guidelines for Annual Assessment and Allocation of Tax Levy (Superseded by IGR 07-403)
• IGR 07-402  Fiscal Year 2008 Guidelines for Determining Annual Levy Limit Increases for Tax Base Growth
• Fall Course 101 Registration - Bulletin 2007-08B 
• <em>City and Town</em>  FOCUS: The Shift Was On - Split Tax Rates FY1992 to FY2006.
  Focus Table of Communities that have shifted, FY00 - FY06 

July 2007

• 07-301  Fiscal Year 2008 Payment Schedule For Cherry Sheet Programs
• 07-302  Fiscal Year 2008 Waivers to Education Reform Spending Requirements and Minimum Required Local Contributions
• Bulletin 2007-07B  - Municipal Law Seminar
• FY2007 Bureau of Accounts -

June 2007

• In Our Opinion A selection of opinions issued by the Division of Local Services
• City and Town  FOCUS: Sewer Rate Relief, FY04 to FY07
• FY2008 Centrally Valued Pipeline Companies
  • FY2008 Centrally Valued Pipeline Companies Values 
  • FY2008 Pipeline New Growth  - The only reported centrally valued pipeline new growth is for Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company in Charlton.
  • FY2008 Centrally Valued Pipeline Companies Addresses  -This is a list of the billing addresses for Centrally Valued Pipeline Companies

May 2007

• FY2008 Centrally Valued Telephone and Telegraph Companies
  • Memorandum to Boards of Assessors 
  • FY2008 Centrally Valued Telephone and Telegraph Company Values 
  • FY2008 New Growth Values for Centrally Valued Telephone and Telegraph Companies 
  • List of Billing Addresses for Centrally Valued Telephone and Telegraph Companies 
  • FY2008 Companies Filing Returns to be Locally Valued  List of company names and addresses that filed a state return but were not centrally valued.
    
• City and Town  FOCUS: 2006 Equalized Valuations

April 2007

• City and Town  FOCUS: Task Force on Municipal Collections

March 2007

• IGR 07-208  2007 Adjustment in Land of Low Value Foreclosure Valuation Limit
• IGR 07-207  Optional Cost of Living Adjustment for Fiscal Year 2008 Exemptions
• IGR 07-206  Social Security Deduction For Fiscal Year 2008
• IGR 07-205  Fiscal Year 2008 Tax Bills - Quarterly Payment System
• IGR 07-204  Fiscal Year 2008 Tax Bills Semi-Annual Payment System - Annual Preliminary Bills
• IGR 07-203  Fiscal Year 2008 Tax Bills Semi-Annual Payment System - Optional Preliminary Bills
• IGR 07-202  Fiscal Year 2008 Tax Bills Semi-Annual Payment System
• Levy Limit Instructions and Cover Letter 
• Bulletin 2007-05B  - FY2008 Budget Issues and Procedures
• FY2008 - Farmland Valuation Advisory Commission Recommended Land Values and Farm Animal Excise
  • Cover Letter 
  • Chapter 61A Recommended Land Value 
  • Farm Animal Excise 
• City and Town  FOCUS: Superintendency Unions
• Bulletin 2007-04B  - Personal Exemption Application
• Bulletin 2007-03B  - 2006 Legislation - Summary of 2006 Municipal Finance Law Changes
• Bulletin 2007-02B  - Local Option Exemption For Research and Development
• IGR 07-201  Clause 41C½ Property Tax Exemptions For Seniors
• Bell Atlantic Mobile Appellate Tax Board "Findings of Fact and Report" 
  On February 27, 2007 the Appellate Tax Board issued its Findings of Fact and Report in the Bell Atlantic Mobile of Massachusetts Corporation, Ltd. d/b/a Verizon Wireless v. Commissioner of Revenue et al., A.T.B. Nos. C267959-C268176, C269027-028 and Board of Assessors of City of Newton v. Commissioner of Revenue and Bell Atlantic Mobile, LLC, A.T.B. No. C269569. For your information and convenience a link to that report is provided above.

February 2007

• Final 2006 equalization (EQV) Study - LA19 Reports
  2006 Final EQV for each community, listing assessed values, equalized values and ratios by class, plus estimated growth and Chapter 121A values.
  - Cover Letter 
  - LA19 Reports By Community   
  

January 2007
 

• Bulletin 2007-04B  - Personal Exemption Application
• Bulletin 2007-03B  - 2006 Legislation - Summary of 2006 Municipal Finance Law Changes
• Bulletin 2007-02B  - Local Option Exemption For Research and Development
• FY2008 Notification to Gas and Oil Pipeline Filers 
• Bulletin 2007-01B  Training Program for Assessors
• FY2008 Telephone and Telegraph Return:
  • Instructions Letter for Form 5941 
  • Form 5941  file size 3MB
• Technology: No Small Town Left Behind