Bill Text - SB509 (2018)

Allowing municipalities to require income and expense information of business properties for tax appraisals.


Revision: Dec. 20, 2017, 12:25 p.m.

SB 509  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2018 SESSION

18-3023

05/06

 

SENATE BILL 509

 

AN ACT allowing municipalities to require income and expense information of business properties for tax appraisals.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Fuller Clark, Dist 21; Rep. Burton, Straf. 6; Rep. Somssich, Rock. 27

 

COMMITTEE: Public and Municipal Affairs

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill allows towns and cities to require owners of business property to provide upon request income and expense information for purposes of determining market value.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

18-3023

05/06

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eighteen

 

AN ACT allowing municipalities to require income and expense information of business properties for tax appraisals.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  New Section; Appraisal of Taxable Property; Information for Commercial and Industrial Property.  Amend RSA 75 by inserting after section 5 the following new section:

75:5-a  Income and Expense Information for Business Property.  The selectmen or assessors may require an owner of business property to provide upon the request of the assessing officials, the board of tax and land appeals, or the court, the income and expense information necessary for completing or evaluating the market value of the property in question.  If the owner of the property fails to provide such information when requested, the owner shall be guilty of a violation.  All documents submitted as requested, and any copies, shall be considered confidential, handled so as to protect the privacy of the taxpayer, and not used for any purpose other than the specific statutory purposes for which the information was obtained.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect April 1, 2018.