What's New - Archive 2009

December 2009

• Bulletin 2009-23B  - Fiscal Year 2010 Tax Bill Mailing Extension and Options

November 2009
 

• <em>City and Town</em>  FOCUS: State Owned Land Valuation in 2009

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  Fiscal Year 2010 Guidelines for Annual Assessment and Allocation of Tax Levy
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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. 
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• 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 Revenues in 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  file size 2MB
  • 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  file size 1MB
• FY2009 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  file size 1MB FOCUS:Equalized Valuation on the Move 1998 to 2008
• Time Adjusting Sales Prices  (Powerpoint Show - Click mouse on screen to advance or use navigation 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 
  • 2009DCRWebsiteValues.xls 
  • DCR Water Supply Protection Land (Formerly MDC Watershed) 
  • DCR Water Supply Protection 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
• IGR 09-207  Calendar Year 2009 Adjustment in Land of Low Value Foreclosure Valuation Limit
• IGR 09-206  Optional Cost of Living Adjustment for Fiscal Year 2010 Exemptions
• IGR 09-205  Social Security Deduction for Fiscal Year 2010
• IGR 09-204  Fiscal Year 2010 Tax Bills Quarterly Payment System
• IGR 09-203  Fiscal Year 2010 Tax Bills Semi-Annual Payment System - Annual Preliminary Bills
• IGR 09-202  Fiscal Year 2010 Tax Bills Semi-Annual Payment System - Optional Preliminary Bills
• IGR 09-201  Fiscal Year 2010 Tax Bills Semi-Annual Payment System

March 2009
 

• Bulletin 2009-10B  FY2010 Budget Issues and Procedures
• Bulletin 2009-09B  Instruments of Taking
• Bulletin 2009-08B  Summary of 2008 Municipal Law Changes

February 2009
 

• <em>City and Town</em>   FOCUS:Public Library Funding
• Bulletin 2009-07B  Farm Animal and Machinery Excise
• Bulletin 2009-06B  Training Program for Assessors
• Assessment Certification Manual and Field Review Manual 
• Final 2008 Equalization (EQV) Study - LA19 Reports
  2008 Final EQV for each community, listing assessed values, equalized values and ratios by class, plus estimated growth and Chapter 121A values. County tax is being provided for your convenience.
  • Cover Letter 
  • LA19 EQV Reports By Community 
  • Summary - Total EQV and Ratios, all communities 
  • County Tax 
• Bulletin 2009-05B  - Impact of FY09 Local Aid Reductions on Quarterly Distributions
• FY2010 - Farmland Valuation Advisory Commission Recommended Land Values and Farm Animal Excise
  • Cover Letter 
  • Chapter 61A Recommended Land Values 
  • Farm Animal Excise 
  • Crop Developmental Time Periods 

January 2009
 

• Bulletin 2009-04B  - FY2009 Local Aid Cuts
• Bulletin 2009-3B  - New Form of List for Mobile Wireless Telecommunications Companies
• Mobile Telecommunications Personal Property Form of List (Form 2MT) 
  • Mobile Telecommunications Electronic Schedule B Excel Spreadsheet for Form 2MT, with Dropdown Menus  file size 1MB
    • Note: Spreadsheet is a sample that local assessors may use for electronic filing purposes
• FY2010 Telephone and Telegraph Return:
  • Instructions Letter for Form 5941 
  • Form 5941  file size 3MB  * Please note that the multiplier table has not been updated on Form 5941 at this time.
  • Finders List - Archaic Community, District, Neighborhood, Section and Village, Names in Massachusetts (to match a name of a village, section or neighborhood to the official list of names of the 351 Massachusetts communities)
• FY2010 Notification to Gas and Oil Pipeline Filers 
• Bulletin 2009-01B  - Financing Ice Storm Damage Expenses