2017 property tax rollback
BPC Staff Mar 15, 2018 | 2:47 pm
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118 wordsAll Latest News, Real Estate and DevelopmentProperty tax bills that are based on 2017 assessments will be due this Sept. 30 and again on March 31, 2019. The bills are based on a percentage of property assessments. Here are the percentages, or rollbacks, by property class for the 2017 assessments: commercial, industrial and railroad properties were set by 2013 property tax legislation at 90 percent; multifamily properties, 78.75 percent; residential, 55.6 percent; and agriculture, 54.4 percent. According to the Polk County assessor’s office, there is $43 billion in taxable property in the county. Residential properties make up about $28 billion; commercial $9.8 billion; multifamily $1.5 billion; industrial $700 million; and farmland about $300 million. Of the total, $3.7 billion is exempt from property taxes.